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EPA just buried its climate change website for kids


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By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post

The Environmental Protection Agency has sidelined a website aimed at teaching schoolchildren about climate change, a public watchdog group has determined, as part of the agency’s efforts to align online content with the new administration’s values.

When the EPA announced on April 28 that its site was “undergoing changes that reflect the agency’s new direction under President Donald Trump and Administrator Scott Pruitt,” it pointed to a snapshot of the website as it looked on Jan. 19, the day before Trump took office.

While it made it clear that this snapshot would not be updated, the idea was to allow the public to see what was being changed under the new administration.

But “A Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change,” a popular site that used to occupy a prominent place on the agency’s main website, is not accessible from either the snapshot or by navigating the agency’s home page, according to the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, a group that has been tracking what changes the new administration has been making to public science and environmental sites.

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  1. Irish Wahini says - Posted: May 8, 2017

    What do you mean it will “align online content with the new administration’s values”?
    The new administration HAS NO VALUES with climate change! (…or health care!)

  2. Irish Wahini says - Posted: May 8, 2017

    Need to get rid of McClintock from Congress – he is in DENIAL of climate change. He also does NOTHING for our mountain town or Lake Tahoe. Register to vote and exercise your right to put folks into office who will carry your values forward.