FAS – “Below you’ll find a roundup of the spookiest federal data losses across USDA, SAMHSA, EPA, FEMA, and OMB. This carousel is not for the faint of heart, but I also wrote some context –and it’s not all doom and gloom. Read more here in the Federation of American Scientists blog: https://lnkd.in/eF-yD9Qf – Visit the dataset graveyard at EssentialData.US: https://lnkd.in/eZ2jq4cm… We’ve identified three types of data decedents. Examples are below, but visit the Dearly Departed Dataset Graveyard at EssentialData.US for a more complete tally and relevant links.

1. Terminated datasets. These are data that used to be collected and published on a regular basis (for example, every year) and will no longer be collected. When an agency terminates a collection, historical data are usually still available on federal websites. This includes the well-publicized terminations of USDA’s Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement, and EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, as well as the less-publicized demise of SAMHSA’s Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN). Meanwhile, the Community Resilience Estimates Equity Supplement that identified neighborhoods most socially vulnerable to disasters has both been terminated and pulled from the Census Bureau’s website.
2. Removed variables. With some datasets, agencies have taken out specific data columns, generally to remove variables not aligned with Administration priorities. That includes Race/Ethnicity (OPM’s Fedscope data on the federal workforce) and Gender Identity (DOJ’s National Crime Victimization Survey, the Bureau of Prison’s Inmate Statistics, and many more datasets across agencies).
3. Discontinued tools. Digital tools can help a broader audience of Americans make use of federal datasets. Departed tools include EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping tool – known to friends as “EJ Screen” – which shined a light on communities overburdened by environmental harms, and also Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open, a digital go-bag of ~300 critical infrastructure datasets from across federal agencies relied on by emergency managers around the country…”

See also via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 4 – This is a follow up to three previous articles on the Trump administration’s relentless attacks against science, medicine and public health, government sponsored data collection and reporting, climate science, and the censorship of government documents that extends into federally funded academic research and scholarship. On July 31, 2025 I published The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health and on August 31, 2025, The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health – Part 2. The second article focused on sweeping administration directives, executive orders, purges of federal government agency personnel and government sponsored data, significantly impacting the effective administration of our three branches of government. On September 30, 2025 I published The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health Part 3. This article opened the aperture further to bring more light on how the Trump administration ratcheted up attacks on government employees, agencies, programs and services, and steeply diminished the range and impact of critical services historically provided to the American public and our engagement in humanitarian programs around the world…