Overview
- The agency edited key webpages to delete references to human-driven greenhouse gases and removed links to data, including entire 'Climate Change Indicators' and 'Climate Impacts and Analysis' sections.
- The updated causes-of-climate page now lists only natural phenomena such as solar and orbital changes and volcanic activity, omitting fossil fuels and other human contributions.
- Scientists and former officials called the changes misleading and harmful, noting broken links to impacts, risks and indicators and the loss of a widely used public resource.
- An EPA spokesperson defended the edits as routine and aligned with administration priorities, stating the agency will not take 'marching orders from the climate cult.'
- One 'basics of climate science' page still states most post-1950s warming is caused by people, as legal scrutiny grows with UCS and EDF suing over a DOE report and a judge ordering DOE to release related documents within weeks.