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Multiple media outlets reported Jan. 25 that staff at the U.S. EPA had been ordered to scrub climate change information from the agency's expansive website, but later reports said the Trump administration had backed down from the directive.
The section of the EPA's website dedicated to climate change includes links to information on possible impacts for all regions of the country, greenhouse gas data and science from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on warming trends.
Citing two unnamed EPA staffers, Reuters reported that the directive to remove the information came from administration officials. The employees reportedly said they were notified Jan. 24 that communications personnel had been instructed to remove the EPA.gov website's climate change section as early as the following day.
"If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change...