‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump

The Trump administration removed the online data tool used to allocate money to environmental justice communities. In two days, a coalition of data scientists had restored it on an independent internet domain.

By Anika Jane Beamer
March 4, 2025
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Anika Jane Beamer

Anika Jane Beamer is an Outrider fellow at Inside Climate News and a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 
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