CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly a year into the Trump administration, mentions of climate change have been systematically removed, altered or played down on websites across the federal government, according to a report made public Wednesday [1-10-18].
The findings of the report, by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, an international coalition of researchers and activist groups, are in keeping with the policies of a president who has proudly pursued an agenda of repealing environmental regulations, opening protected lands and waters to oil and gas drilling, withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord, shrinking the boundaries of federal monuments, and appointing top officials who have questioned or denied the established science of human-caused climate change…
In a separate report, also made public Wednesday, the group found that the Bureau of Land Management had deleted its climate change website and removed text about the importance of climate change mitigation from its main site.
The researchers took care to note that raw government data on climate change, such as historical records of temperatures and emissions levels, had not been deleted… Trump administration officials have noted that it is the administration’s prerogative to highlight its agenda — repealing climate change policies and promoting the exploration of oil, gas and coal — on its websites. The Obama administration sought to promote climate change policies and elevate the issue in the public eye, but the Trump administration is under no obligation to continue that effort.”
-Coral Davenport, “How Much Has ‘Climate Change’ Been Scrubbed From Federal Websites? A Lot.,” The New York Times online, Jan. 10, 2018