American Society of Adaptation Professionals: List of high-priority federal datasets across EPA, Census, NOAA, USGS, and many other agencies (Contact [email protected] to access these resources).
Biden-Harris Administration Archives: The following archived websites from the Biden-Harris administration represent historical material “frozen in time”. The websites are no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work:
CDC Datasets: CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025.
The Clean Economy Tracker (CET): Tracks private-led investments and jobs in clean energy and technology manufacturing as well as non-manufacturing, commercial scale deployment projects in the United States.
Climate Change and Health Research Coordinating Center (CAFE) Collection @ Harvard Dataverse: includes datasets from a number of US Federal agencies to enable research at the intersection of climate and human health.
Climate Mirror: Works to store and make public climate change data.
Climate Program Portal-Data Reports and Program Guidance: Access archived guidance documents, fact sheets, data tools, and the resources in this library.
Climate Program Portal-IIJA & IRA Program Webpages: Archived hundreds of IIJA and IRA Program web pages, funding requests, and award announcements.
Data Lumos: DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. They accept deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR might add to DataLumos.
Data Rescue Efforts: a Google doc listing several efforts to preserve data, a product of the Data Rescue Project.
Data Rescue Project: Their goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk.
End of Term Archive: Preserved federal websites in advance of administration changes since 2008, including those from the Biden Administration.
The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI): Supports the End of Term Archive and coordinating across organizations to preserve key federal environmental information.
Find Lost Data: Able to search across several data archive/rescue sites.
Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program: Tracks Federal Actions Related to Environmental Justice.
Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program: Collects Climate and law datasets.
The Internet Archive (or Wayback Machine): Is a “digital library” of Internet sites including archived snapshots of federal websites.
National Centers for Environmental Information(NCEI): Provides archive services for much of the data collected by NOAA scientists, observing systems, and research initiatives.
The Public Environmental Data Project: This is a collaborative effort that is preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data, including key tools such as:
· CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index and Environmental Justice Index
· Council on Environmental Quality EJScorecard
· Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
· Catalyst Cooperative: Partner of the Public environmental data project. Trying to make sure data related to climate and energy is stored and accessible for researchers.
· Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP): Partner of the Public Environmental Data Project. This org is trying to capture data related to climate science and environmental justice.
Source Cooperative: A project of the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, this is a regularly updated mirror of Data.gov, the US federal government data finding and storage site.
Syracuse University: is sharing resources to find archived government data of all kinds.
The Water Program Portal: A digital information hub for organizations and public agencies tracking recent federal investments in water, specifically the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
