Trump's EPA May Have Shut Down It's Climate Change Website for Good
Source: Newsweek
By Alexandra Hutzler On 11/2/18 at 10:59 AM
The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped updating its websites with climate change information, instead leaving site visitors with error messages and blank pages.
In April 2017, three months after noted climate-change skeptic Donald Trump took office, the EPA removed its climate change subdomains from public access. Overall, at least 80 URLs, including epa.gov/climatechange, were shut down. The federal agency claimed the move was only temporary and that the sites were “being updated” to reflect the new priorities of the agency under the new leadership of President Trump and then-EPA chief Scott Pruitt. Pruitt has since resigned due to ethics scandals.
“The process which involves updating language to reflect the approach of new leadership, is intended to ensure that the public can use the website to understand the agency’s current efforts,” a press release sent out by the agency read at the time.
But a report released last week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative showed that in October the EPA modified the splash page and removed statements saying that the website was under construction. Now, the page simply states: “We want to help you find what you are looking for.”
Along with discontinuing any potential updates to the climate change sites, the EPA removed links to their searchable web archive for any past information on the subject and a link to their technical support request form.
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Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/epa-shits-down-climate-change-websites-1198362
The assault by Trump on us, our land, air etc continues behind the scenes at a fast scary rate.
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and how this agency EPA is tied to the USDA.................and if this asshole does this, this country will turn into a Sahara Desert................I am not fear mongering the USDA funds programs like the EPA for a reason, and this asshole is out to take down the USDA and give that money to banks and oligarchs in the oil and gas industry .........................that is what is going on.....................
Get out and vote November 6, 2018 , it cannot get here fast enough, the planets future is at stake, your children's future and our entire planets collective future is at stake.................we have no where else to go................no where else.................that is a fact.........
that goes out from that agency EPA, its like adage out of site out of mind.................we have to stop this crime family.......
Classic!!!! It doesn't even re-direct to a correctly-spelled version either.
Extremist governments that change existing laws and regulations on a whim cause massive problems around the globe, as regulatory environments swing from left to right, rather than staying at a solid consensus center where all nations can agree, work together and thrive.
That common sense rule for global governments applies to economic, environmental and social laws and regulations that should not be allowed to vacillate to any extreme. Good international diplomacy by default keeps that system stable.
The Republican Party's drive (and by extension any right-wing party around the globe) toward a total laissez-faire global economy simply accelerates economic inequality and will result in more deaths from poverty and environmental risks.
That's not to mention the wasteful costs to public purses to make these insane changes, only to change them differently after another election cycle.
Most of the above mentioned problems are caused by the greedy, diseased brains of our global 1%.....
