As “Climate Change” Fades from Government Sites, a Struggle to Archive Data – PBS

Article Synopsis – The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), a mostly volunteer network formed after President Trump’s election, monitors about 25,000 federal web pages each week for changes. They found references to climate change removed from seven federal agencies’ websites, with some of the biggest changes happening on the EPA site. These changes to federal websites have made information about climate change less accessible to the public. Groups like EDGI are grappling with how to preserve mass amounts of federal climate information that researchers fear is at risk. To read the actual article click here.

 

By Sharon Gray December 8, 2017 Newsletter