If you’re looking for info about climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website is not the place to go.
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“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,” Freire wrote. In its place, a story about the EPA “complying with President Trump’s executive order on energy independence, which undoes former-President Obama’s climate agenda.”
“We want to eliminate confusion by removing outdated language first and making room to discuss how we’re protecting the environment and human health by partnering with states and working within the law.”
The White House stirred emotions when it removed a climate change page from its website shortly after Trump’s inauguration, claiming it was part of an “overhaul of the site.” But the president terminated his predecessor’s Clean Power Plan via executive order in an effort to revive the coal industry.
Both Trump and Pruitt have been vocal about their disbelief of the science behind climate change. The POTUS famously tweeted in 2012 “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
And in May 2016, Pruitt wrote: “Healthy debate is the lifeblood of American democracy, and global warming has inspired on of the major policy debates of our time. That debate is far from settled. Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind… Dissent in not a crime.”