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Why Donald Trump’s environmental data purge is so much worse this time

Justine Calma

created: Aug. 9, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: Aug. 10, 2025, 2:35 p.m.

Now that we’re about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, we can take stock of his administration’s destruction of online environmental resources. That includes changes to content, like replacing the term “climate change” with “extreme weather,” and the wholesale removal of entire webpages. “The thing that is the most different is this total erasure of information about environmental racism and the evidence of environmental racism,” Gehrke says. “That story is yet to unfold.” So far, the EPA’s climate change website is still intact. Farmers and environmental groups have also filed suit to force the Trump administration to restore federal resources.

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