Since the results of the 2024 Presidential Election, Atlas Public Policy—and dozens of organizations—have been hard at work archiving crucial information and data that the policy community will need to continue the climate fight. Concerns about access to crucial data mounted as the Trump Administration’s plans to curtail the efforts of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) surfaced. The IIJA and the IRA have both made historic climate investments, totaling over $215 billion in awarded grant funding thus far.

However, there are still tens of billions of dollars left to invest. With the signing of Executive Order 14091, which immediately halted disbursement of IIJA and IRA funds, the Trump Administration has signaled its intent to delay implementation, curtail progress, and possibly support partial repeals of both laws. Additionally, many crucial resources that the climate policy community have relied on have been taken offline, with many more at risk of removal in the coming weeks and months.

Critical resources for your climate policy needs

Foreseeing this situation, Atlas and our partners worked to digitally archive online data, guidance, and other resources of importance to the climate community. We have downloaded many of the latest publicly available datasets for information about key topics in the climate space, including emissions data, disadvantaged community designations, public investments, and climatic event information. Atlas focused on preserving federal agency resources that would be removed with the new administration, archiving fact sheets, program guidance, toolkits, and more. All told, Atlas has preserved hundreds of webpages related to IIJA and IRA programs. You can see a summary of our efforts on our Federal Archives page. Here are the three main components of the archiving effort:

1. IIJA & IRA Program Webpages: Access hundreds of archived IIJA and IRA program webpages, funding requests, and award announcements.
2. Data, Reports, & Program Guidance: Access archived guidance documents, fact sheets, data, tools, and other resources in the Library. Use the keyword search or any of the filters.
3. Project Links: Where possible, our Opportunities and Outcomes dashboards will include both the original project or program link and an “archive” link with the PDF version of the page. This covers pages from on or before January 8, 2025.

This archival effort was proactive, so some of the main webpages are still active. To ensure that CPP users have continued access to this data, you will notice that our Opportunities or Outcomes dashboards data now include both the original links and an archive link that will direct you to a PDF version of the webpage for all links we were able to archive. For many of these archived webpages, we have also archived hyperlinked pages within the PDFs. We will continue adding more resources to our Library over the coming days but if you can’t find a particular hyperlink, get in touch with the Climate Program Portal team.

While much of our archival effort was focused on data central to the climate policy community that uses Climate Program Portal, we have other information pertinent to our other major products supporting further policy areas, such as water-specific policy through our sister product the Water Program Portal, transportation electrification through EV Hub, buildings decarbonization through Buildings Hub, and investments in clean energy and technology jobs through the Clean Economy Tracker. If you need information that is not in our library or on our dashboards, please contact us so we can do our best to help get you the data you need.

Partners have preserved even more

Atlas did not undergo this archiving effort alone. Many other organizations throughout the climate community embarked on parallel efforts to archive or reproduce federal resources. We encourage you to connect with these groups and look out for their archived resources as well:

• American Society of Adaptation Professionals identified and downloaded a list of high-priority federal datasets across EPA, Census, NOAA, USGS, and many other agencies. Reach out to us at info@climateprogramportal.org to be put in touch with this group.
• Climate Mirror works to store and make public climate change data.
• Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program tracks federal actions related to environmental justice and is collecting climate and law datasets.
• The End of Term Archive has preserved federal websites in advance of administration changes since 2008, including those from the Biden Administration.
• The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is supporting the End of Term Archive and coordinating across organizations to preserve key federal environmental information.
• The Internet Archive (or Wayback Machine) is a “digital library” of internet sites including archived snapshots of federal websites.
• The Public Environmental Data Project is a collaborative effort that is preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data, including key tools such as the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool.

Finally, many resources are still accessible through the Biden White House Archive, the archived version of Invest.gov, and the archived Council for Environmental Quality website.

If you or a group you know of should be included on this list, please reach out to us at info@climateprogramportal.org.