In an article on January 28 (a week of President Trump’s second term), I urged it to “clear climate scams from federal websites.”
Trump 1.0 has done a very poor job of controlling communications on sites such as the EPA, the Department of Energy and the Department of Transportation. [emphasis, links added]
Did they do better this time?
They have certainly taken some important steps to address this in the first few weeks of the new administration.
For example, on April 15, the Guardian and the work titled “Green Group Subt Trump Administration Deleted on Climate Web Pages.” It seems that Trump 2.0 has removed pages that previously tracked the impact of climate on “low-income communities.”
Of course, this quickly stimulated the usual round of lawsuits, this time brought by a “green group” including the Sierra Club and the coalition of related scientists.
Guardian excerpt:
In the first few weeks of his second term, the Trump administration pulled federal websites to track the impact of climate, pollution and extreme weather on low-income communities and identify infrastructure that is extremely vulnerable to climate disasters. “The public has the right to access these taxpayer-funded datasets,” said Gretchen Goldman, president of the Alliance for Scientific Advocacy Nonprofits, a lawsuit. . . . “Deleting government data sets is related to theft,” Goldman Sachs added.
The specific lawsuit in question has been taken to the place you expect – the District Court of the District of Columbia. If Judge James Boasberg is appointed to preside over, or no injunction has been issued yet.
I commend the people of the government for making this “climate justice” nonsense a priority in modifying government communication.
If attempts to curb fossil fuels are obvious, it is that poor people will suffer disproportionately from rising energy prices.
Meanwhile, the idea about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is to some extent a totally ridiculous. The whole “climate justice” tone is always the meanest.
Looking around the related websites, I found at least some other notable changes. For example, on the DOE website, I observed in a Jan. 28 post that there is a link to “fight the climate crisis.”
If you click on it, you will be taken to the “page full of biden-e era clapping”.
Today, the same link is related to the Department of Energy’s open page, which is related to Chris Wright’s speech at the Ceraweek conference in 2025.
More generally, announcements about the so-called “climate crisis” are no longer listed on the previous page of the relevant site.
But overall, there are much less changes.
The section on the Ministry of Energy’s website about “decarbonization,” “floating offshore wind energy” and “zero net economy” remains active.
If President Trump suspends all offshore wind development, what is the Energy Department still doing “Floating offshore winds are key to transitioning dense population centers to clean energy”?
Again, on the EPA, you can't find a reference for climate change on the website's open page. However, if you type “Climate Change” into the search box, you will still bring you to a page that looks unchanged since Biden left-end.
An example of the remaining gems:
Climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that human activities are the cause of today’s climate change, mainly by releasing excess greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The emissions of these greenhouse gases come from the activities of burning fossil fuels, raising livestock and cleaning forests.
There are a lot more similar things in the still active climate science section of the EPA website.
So my message to the Trump team on this topic is, a good start, but it's time to take that seriously and get started.
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