When government data tools get doged.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

In the Trump administration's efforts to shrink and realign the federal government,

data sets on climate, health, and demographics have disappeared.

Some have been scrubbed from public view.

Others may not be collected anymore.

This data supported apps and interactive tools many researchers relied upon.

Denise Ross is a senior advisor with the Federation

of American Scientists and former chief data scientist for the U.S. She recently wrote a tribute to the

data that's been lost. One example of a tool that was specifically targeted for removal

early on in the administration was EPA's Environmental Justice

Screening and mapping tool, and that's known to friends as EJ Screen. And it shines a light on

communities that have been overburdened by environmental harms. A few months ago, DHS canceled its

homeland infrastructure foundation level data open data set.

And that's a long way of saying the acronym is Highfield.

And I think this is more in the collateral damage bucket where it was a victim of cost-cutting efforts.

But that high-filled data set was a digital go-bag of around 300

critical infrastructure data sets from across federal agencies that emergency managers around the

country relied on. It gave like a one-stop shop for information on hazards that might harm

communities if things got bad with a disaster

or emergency, things like the concentrated animal feeding operations that could release

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