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workinclasszero

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Sun Apr 30, 2017, 09:21 AM Apr 2017

EPA Purges Pages That Highlight Climate Change From Its Website

EPA Purges Pages That Highlight Climate Change From Its Website
The agency says it’s making the changes to reflect the new leadership.
By Sam Levine 04/29/2017 01:05 pm ET | Updated 14 hours ago

The Environmental Protection Agency removed portions of its website related to climate change on Friday evening ― hours before thousands were set to protest President Donald Trump’s environmental policy.

Sections dealing with climate change were only part of what is being reviewed, the agency said in a Friday press release. The EPA was making the changes “reflect the approach of new leadership,” it said.

The EPA made the changes to reflect the agency’s “new direction” under Trump and Administrator Scott Pruitt. Trump has suggested that climate change is a hoax and Pruitt has repeatedly questioned how much human beings are contributing to it.

But the science on climate change is overwhelmingly clear. Ninety-seven percent of actively publishing climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends are extremely likely due to human activity.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-website-climate-change_us_5904bd23e4b0bb2d086ee483?fxd&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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EPA Purges Pages That Highlight Climate Change From Its Website (Original Post) workinclasszero Apr 2017 OP
The hoax party is in charge. Science is not the hoax, Republicans are. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #1
This is the modern version of the trial of Galileo workinclasszero Apr 2017 #2
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