Advocacy groups are asking a federal court to restore public access to climate and environmental justice webpages removed by EPA and other agencies earlier this year.
The Trump administration illegally removed interactive webpages and underlying data that helped both public interest groups and federal agencies identify communities that are most at risk from pollution, extreme weather and rising global temperatures, the Sierra Club and others said in a court filing Friday.
“By removing resources from their websites, Defendants have made it harder for communities to understand the environmental burdens they face and to advocate for policies that will improve their health and well-being,” the groups told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The groups are urging Judge Rudolph Contreras, an Obama appointee, to issue a preliminary injunction requiring agencies to make the webpages available to the public again as litigation over the removal is ongoing. The groups filed their suit challenging the removed pages last month.
