Memorialize the federal datasets that have been terminated or removed
This Halloween season, we're remembering the federal datasets that have met an untimely end — the ones that were terminated or removed since January 20, 2025. Help us memorialize these Dearly Departed Datasets so we can all understand what was lost and why they matter.
🌕 Hosted by: EssentialData.US, Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP), and The Impact Project
🐈⬛ Deadline: Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 11:59 pm ET
🕯️ Submission Note: One submission per dataset, please.
In scope:
✅ Datasets that have been removed from public access
✅ Datasets that remain available but further data collections have been terminated
✅ Data elements that were removed from a dataset that still exists
✅ Specialized data tools that provide easy access to the data
Not in scope:
❌ Datasets whose status is ambiguous (eg, no staff exist to collect the data, but no official announcement has been made about its termination)
❌ Reports, papers, or analyses that use data, but are not the data sources themselves
❌ Federal websites about a dataset that were pulled down
Examples:
🪦 USDA Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) — terminated
🪦 EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) — terminated
🪦 NOAA Billion-Dollar Disasters Database — terminated
🕸️ FEMA Future Risk Index — taken down
🕸️ DHS Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open — taken down
🕸️ CEQ Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) — taken down
🕸️ EPA Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) — taken down
👻 OPM FedScope — race and ethnicity data removed
👻 BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) — gender data removed
👻 BOP Inmate Statistics — transgender data removed
