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