Progress Report On Purging The Climate Scam From Federal Websites
April 20, 2025/ Francis Menton
In a post on January 28 — a week into President Trump’s second term — I urged that it is time to “purge the climate scam from the federal websites.” Trump 1.0 did a remarkably poor job of taking control of communications on the climate issue on websites like those of EPA, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Transportation. Are they doing any better this time?
They have definitely taken some significant steps to address this issue here in the early weeks of the new administration. For example, on April 15 the Guardian ran a piece with the headline “Green groups sue Trump administration over climate webpage removals.” It seems like Trump 2.0 has taken down the webpages that formerly tracked climate impacts on “low-income communities.” Of course, that has promptly spurred the usual round of lawsuits, this time brought by “green groups” including the Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Excerpt from the Guardian:
In the first weeks of its second term, the Trump administration pulled federal websites tracking shifts in the climate, pollution and extreme weather impacts on low-income communities, and identifying pieces of infrastructure that are extremely vulnerable to climate disasters. “The public has a right to access these taxpayer-funded datasets,” said Gretchen Goldman, president of the science advocacy non-profit Union of Concerned Scientists, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. . . . “Removing government datasets is tantamount to theft,” Goldman added.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2025-4-20-progress-report-on-purging-the-climate-scam-from-federal-websites
