Volunteers are helping save climate data — which teachers rely on — before it's lost

Published June 5, 2025

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 All Things Considered interviewed Lourdes Vera for a segment on how volunteers such as Vera are working to archive much of the data lost as the Trump administration removes climate-related data and tools from agency websites, forcing teachers to fix lesson plans. Vera said she had used one of the EPA’s interactive tools in her college-level classes to show how pollution can impact low-income communities. “The students can very easily see and visualize the correlation between asthma rates and whether a neighborhood was historically red-line,” she said.

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