Tomorrow at 1pm Eastern, we're hosting a second training focused specifically on sussing out environmental information via public records requests with Air Quality Access with Dillon Bergin and Anthony Moser.
Ever wonder how bad the air actually is on those smoggy days? Wish you knew the impact of that proposal for a new shipping center or how your local government is policing polluters?
Building on our collaborative reporting on Chicago’s air quality and our guides to environmental records requests, MuckRock reporter Dillon Bergin shares practical request ideas you can file immediately that help assess local risks, identify potential polluters and look at how your government is or isn’t responding. Bergin will be joined by Anthony Moser, folk technologist and board president of Neighbors for Environmental Justice (N4EJ), to talk about Ineffective By Choice: A Review of Environmental Enforcement Data in Chicago 2002-2022, and how N4EJ received two decades of previously unpublished data from the Department of Administrative Hearings, analyzed it, and put it in context with inspection reports, CDPH emails, and other documents obtained through FOIA.
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