Overview
- Recent edits to EPA’s climate site deleted references to fossil-fuel emissions on the causes page and removed the Climate Change Indicators and Climate Impacts and Risk Analysis sections, leaving a focus on natural phenomena.
- Archived October pages captured by the Wayback Machine show prior language stating it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land, with charts on greenhouse gas emissions.
- EPA’s Brigit Hirsch defended the changes as routine and criticized a so-called climate cult, while some archived links offered by the agency now return errors.
- Scientists and former officials called the revisions misleading and harmful to public understanding, noting that educators and researchers relied on the site’s indicators and visualizations.
- The website overhaul tracks with broader policy moves, including a suspended National Climate Assessment and a likely repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding, as UCS and EDF press DOE in court and a judge orders document disclosures within weeks.