So, EJScreen was scrubbed today from the EPA website. And I found out right in the middle of a class I was teaching today about free online tools for energy and environmental policy. 🧵 #energysky
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EJScreen also gets used in environmental reviews for HUD projects in screening for proximity of proposed housing sites to potential environmental hazards. Not good.
For the past few years in our Energy Analysis and Policy capstone course, I’ve given a demonstration of free, publicly available, user-friendly tools that are useful for energy analysis and policy projects. Many of them are from federal sources, such as EPA or DOE national labs.
At the start of the lecture, I advised that students should download as much as they can now, as we have no idea if or when one of these websites will be taken offline, as is what happened to CEJST a few days ago.
I had EJScreen pulled up on my computer from an hour or two earlier and was ready to talk about it in class, and sure enough when I tried to use it in class, it was no longer working. When I refreshed, I got an access denied message.
And we're running a year-long series of workshops on open energy data and the tools we and others use to work with it. Mostly aimed at grad students. Folks can join the email list here if they're interested:
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