In the first two weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has begun to scrub critical environmental resources and datasets from federal agency websites. To combat this effort to suppress and censor public data, the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project today publishes a selection of materials on climate change and environmental justice that have been deleted from agency web pages and spotlights the environmental and archivist organizations working to identify, scrape, and preserve these critical data.
During President Trump’s first term, organizations like the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) documented the administration’s widespread campaign to suppress climate and environmental data,[1] like when it deleted all webpages, fact sheets, and emissions and financial incentives calculators related to President Obama’s 2015 Clean Power Plan. Since the 2024 presidential election, EDGI and environmental advocacy organizations alike have anticipated the targeting of federal environmental and climate data and have been archiving datasets and preparing to rebuild public access to web tools.
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