E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

A step back for transparency: Government stops rating appliance energy efficiency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/climate/epa-energy-star-eliminated.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=8C44FBD0-63B5-4C78-819F-86BF17A9BD69

Information Inequality Can Be a Matter of Life or Death

In this paper, Mary W. Graham, co-director of the Center’s Transparency Policy Project, explores the unintended information inequities that weaken the nation’s vital health and safety alerts. By examining three policies – wildfire alerts, drinking water reports, and auto safety recalls – she suggests common sources of inequality problems and steps policy makers are taking to remedy them.

https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/information-inequality-can-be-a-matter-of-life-or-death/

Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds

Americans rely on government transparency systems threatened by 2025 cuts. 

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5387367/federal-science-opinion-use-poll