On June 13, 2022, concerned organizations, including CLIR, published an open letter asking the Environmental Protection Agency not to sunset its online archive. If the Environmental Protection Agency sunsets its online archive in July as planned, the public will lose access to information about critical environmental issues, and past and present agency activities, policies, priorities.  

 

Maintaining the archive supports the agency’s outspoken commitments to public trust, scientific integrity, and environmental justice. Retiring the archive undermines these commitments. The full press release is available here: https://bit.ly/3NPG5AH along with a letter signed by Sarah S. Elkind, President, American Society for Environmental History and cosigned by American Historical Association, College Art Association of America, Environmental Historians Action Collaborative, National Council on Public History, Society of Architectural Historians, and the World History Association.

 

Links for more information

• Justine Calma’s article in The Verge
• Gretchen Gehrke’s article in The Equation 

 

Erin O’Donnell, MMC

Outreach and Engagement Associate

🍅 Based in Basking Ridge, NJ

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

Arlington, VA

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