Donald Trump orders EPA to delete all climate change information from its website
Donald Trump orders Environmental Protection Agency to delete all climate change information from its website
'If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear,' one member of staff said
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The Trump administration is forcing the Environmental Protection Agency to delete all of its pages on climate change.
The move comes as part of a much broader crackdown on postings by all agencies who track the effects of global warming on the environment. All of those organisations – as well as others, like the National Parks Service – have been banned from talking to the public by the US government.
Now scientists are scrambling to save some of the most important parts of the EPA's website before they are deleted off the internet entirely.
"If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear," one official told Reuters soon after the order to shut down the website was sent.
The employees were notified by EPA officials on Tuesday that the administration had instructed EPA's communications team to remove the website's climate change page, which contains links to scientific global warming research, as well as detailed data on emissions. The pages could go down as early as Wednesday, the sources said.
The Trump administration appears to be engaged in a much broader effort to remove information on global warming from the internet. It took down all reference to the phenomenon on the White House page, replacing it with an energy policy that committed to scrap Barack Obama's landmark climate plan and limit the remit of the EPA.
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