The Trump Administration has removed links and references to “climate change” from a key Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website. The website was previously entitled “Climate and Energy Resources for State, Local and Tribal Governments” and is now named “Energy Resources for State, Local and Tribal Governments.”
Fifteen mentions of climate change were removed from the main page. Links to crucial resources for state, local and tribal governments were moved and made less accessible. These changes were noted by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, a network of academics and nonprofits working to address threats to environmental and energy policy and to the scientific research infrastructure. According to a spokesman for the EPA, the resources are still available through an archive, which has a link at the top of the site.
If nothing else, this move is consistent. It is consistent with the administration’s overt strategy to actively put industry interests before the health of people, communities, and the planet. It is consistent with their propensity for obscuring and erecting barriers to information as the changes to the website were not announced and the administration gave no reason for the changes. And it is consistent with the interests of donors that have supported the administration, who have given over $20 million to fight climate change research.
This move may seem like small potatoes. But it’s crucial to see all the ways protections for the environment are being chipped away. By obscuring information and washing an EPA website of the term “climate change,” the administration continues to send a clear anti-environmental message. For now, states, cities, and tribal governments must look elsewhere (or dig into EPA archives) for resources, coordination, and guidance on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and climate change.
What’s New…
Climate change is a fact. The fact is, climate change has been continual and ongoing since the geologic beginning of Earth. Climate change is demonstrable proof of a viable ecosystem that maintains life on Earth. “Man-caused global warming/ Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC)” is a totally different issue, and has devolved basically into a near-religious sect of philosophy. So yes, I am AOK with removing climate change from the EPA website, it’s totally redundant statement of an obvious fact of life.
Referencing ACC would probably satisfy those that follow that near-religious sect – but wait, I thought there was supposed to be a separation of church and state?
All of this is totally understandable in a country that has NO accountability for people who have money and use it to manipulate and lie about anything and everything in order to get more money. The only thing they truly care about or for is their (or their friends)money; Trump has shown this repeatedly, all his life, including the last 14 months. Thanks to Trump, the Koch brothers, the Smith brothers (Massachusetts), we have a meaner, more violent, more ignorant, more negative, more stupid, more poor, and more depressed population where prisons are overcrowded and streets are unsafe! Thanks to the love of money, greed, narcissism and ignorance the USA is NOT a place to learn, understand, grow and change FOR THE BETTER! Too bad more people did not understand that what Trump means when he refers to Let’s make America great again” was really Lets make Trump, Koch’s, and friends more rich, better liars, and less human!
Of course, these people always publish and promote the”HUGE” amounts of money they give to “charities.” This is never done as a percentage to either income or net worth! Nor does it include all their tax-free income in the form of 90% of the meals they eat, the traveling they do to very expensive places (for which the poor working class of America pays), the gifts they give to their “friends,” or the fuel that fills their company owned cars which they and their families and friends (so called employees) drive everyday!
So, do not think they are generous, they are manipulative and deceptive trying to look caring and compassionate! We never saw Trump’s tax returns because he has had his well-paid henchmen (known as legal counsel) help him avoid revealing them, just as they have helped him avoid PAYING them!
If we want a healthier world emotionally, physically, intellectually and financially, we have to have accountability, transparency, and intelligence leading this country. Trump is so ignorant, stupid and POORLY EDUCATED (like george w. bush whose grandpa purchased his education; deniers of this fact should that remember dry-drunk George, like Trump, cannot even use the English language correctly! And, that says a lot about Yale and Harvard’s quality!)
Where is Theodore Roosevelt when we need him? Where is his father? Trump and his father probably never knew the qualities for which those Republicans are and were known!
Trump needs to be out of power before he destroys the country but the sad thing is he won’t be destroying the states he will be destroying other countries buy his stupidity and greed and power. He lies has a sicking attitude towards people and now make matters worse climate change. We all now that climate change is happening so why hide it. Leave info out their for people to find info. Get him out.
good move .. messing with our climate has to stop, and so does the $billion dollars a year which pays for it.
When this new “administration” came into power I got angrier every day at the horrible things they were doing to animals, to minorities and to our beautiful planet. Now I am more and more feeling bewildered and sad that the country continues to put up with this destructive behaviour.
Absolutely agree with you. Feel so helpless…this man should be impeached.
A lot of pollution comes because people are eating to much meat. Billions of animals are killed each year. All these animals cause pollution. STOP EATING MEAT. SAVE ANIMALS AND THE WORLD
Even before becoming the US president, Trump had always been speaking about his anti-climate stance in his campaigns. Despite this the voters decided to put him in the White House. Then, once he established himself firmly as the President, he chose only those people who were absolutely anti-environment and pro-industry and oil. Examples include Scott Pruitt, the man who is today responsible for slowly destroying America’s environmental legacy, Rick Perry, the man who is responsible for exploiting energy at the cost of pollution, Rex Tillerson the boss of Exon oil company, Zinke who has a huge ranch and is made in charge of the interior, DeVoss who has no clue about education and the list carries on. Trump must go, the sooner the better. It is now the bounden duty of the people who put him there to remove him from the White House.
Trump, the Antichrist!!
He IS a wicked, wicked piece of work and I don’t think his offspring are any better. Everything he’s doing is wilful, self-obsessed and destructive, and unless he is forcibly removed from his seat of power without delay [any way possible, but I guess impeachment would do] he and his acolytes are going to bring the USA, then the world, to its knees.
The People are going to have to do something, and fast!
He boasts about his IQ, but how is it possible that he’s sooo STUPID!!????
The more time we waste with this fool from the little dicks club, the more damage he will do to our planet and environment.
I fear for Anerica and the rest of the world.
Trump has no concern for the environment or animals only the bottom line. Such a shame.
Scott Pruitt as head of EPA is the worst thing that can happen for the environment. He is siding with industries for mining, etc. Trump is determined to roll back everything Obama has done for the environment and everything else because he hates Obama.
This Trump is so Untrustworthy I certainly would NEVER Buy anything used from him, let alone give him free reign to the country and its protections to the worlds infrastructure …