Following up on our previous blog post regarding updates to Grant Witness’s EPA data, we wanted to share that reinstated grants are now being tracked in both the EPA data table and CSV file on our website. Similarly, we have updated the EPA map on our homepage to reflect state-level differences in terminated and reinstated grants.
As noted previously, correctly determining the current status of grants has been tricky since grants can go through multiple rounds of terminations and reinstatements To that end, we have relied on combinations of event histories to determine the status of a grant.
In both the data table and the CSV file, you’ll find an event_history column with a bulleted list of all the relevant “events” for a grant that have led to its current status. Similarly, there is now a reinstated_indicator alongside the termination_indicator column which specifies how a grant is identified as terminated or reinstated.
For a grant to be listed as “🔄 Possibly Reinstated”, it must either:
- Have a project date re-extension (as identified through USASpending, NGGS or File C data), or
- Was manually reported as reinstated (i.e. via court order as in the cases Sustainability Institute v Trump and Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency)
The exception would be if the grant has been terminated again, in which case the status would be updated and the event_history column would note this history.
Any grant that meets any of the conditions for “🔄 Possibly Reinstated” AND has had an outlay since its reinstatement is marked as “✅ Reinstated”.
While date re-extensions, obligations and outlays for grants are continuously monitored and updated through our data pipeline, court reinstatements are identified manually.
As always, if you have any questions about our methodology or notice any issues/mistakes in our data, please feel free to reach out at info@grant-witness.us.