FLICKR, TEXASGOPVOTE.COMTo better align with the opinions of President Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agency has removed some climate change-related pages on its website. According to The Washington Post, gone are a two-decades-old page describing climate change and another that detailed former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
“As EPA renews its commitment to human health and clean air, land, and water, our website needs to reflect the views of the leadership of the agency,” J.P. Freire, Associate Administrator for Public Affairs at EPA, said in a statement.
The agency’s climate page, which had included primers on the causes of climate change and links to information on climate studies and data, now reads: “This page is being updated.” It does contain a link to the archives of the old site.
“The EPA’s climate site includes important summaries of climate science and indicators that clearly and unmistakably explain and document the impacts we are having on our planet,” Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, told The Washington Post. “It’s hard to ...
