Overview
- The EPA’s Causes of Climate Change page now foregrounds natural variability and no longer states that human activities drive recent warming, with archives showing the change occurred after early October.
- At least 80 climate-related pages disappeared in early December and the Indicators of Climate Change subdomain now redirects to a broken page, erasing charts and maps widely used by educators and local officials.
- An EPA spokesperson defended the revisions as upholding “gold-standard science” and said the agency “no longer takes marching orders from the climate cult,” noting older versions are archived.
- Climate scientists and advocates, including Daniel Swain and the Union of Concerned Scientists, say the edits remove accurate information, risk misleading the public, and could feed falsehoods into AI systems.
- The website changes arrive as the administration advances repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding, with a final decision expected early next year, though some EPA pages still briefly acknowledge human-caused warming.