The Trump administration deleted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s main climate change webpage on Oct. 16, 2018Now, it’s back.
The EPA announced Thursday that it rebooted its climate webpage, which includes information about how the climate is warming and how the regulatory agency seeks to curb heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. “Climate facts are back on EPA’s website where they should be,” the new EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement.
The government watchdog group Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), which monitors federal websites, spotted the eliminated climate pages in fall 2018. Previously, in 2017, the Trump administration’s EPA had only removed climate content from the pages, posting “This page is being updated.” But eventually the administration just terminated the pages. “There’s no indication now that there was even a climate change website,” EDGI’s Eric Nost, who reported the deletion, told Mashable at the time. Read more…
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