The Trump administration has begun removing references to anything related to climate change from multiple federal agency websites, including the Department of Defense (DOD), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the State Department, and the White House.
Removed content includes: the entire page on climate change on the White House website; the climate and sustainability section of the DOT website; the main section on climate change on the State Department website; a climate portal on the DOD website; and content that provided assessments on an area’s vulnerability to wildfire on the USDA website. Federal researchers have seen their studies disappear from agency websites.
Critics say the removal of information will not slow the climate crisis but will hinder the public’s ability to understand and respond to climate change and increasingly extreme weather events.