Founded immediately in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) brought together scholars, including several historians, who sought to ply their professional skills collectively against the Trump assault on the nation's environmental agencies and laws. A co-founder of the group, Chris Sellers, Professor of History at Stony Brook University, helped inaugurate an oral history interviewing project that elevated the voices and experiences of an EPA whose staff had come "under siege." This and other EDGI initiatives successfully drew media attention while also leading to prominent academic articles and other digital initiatives. Sellers will also speak about the Environmental History Action Collaborative, an initiative born out of members of the American Society for Environmental History that eventually found a home within EDGI.
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