EPA

Staff told to 'stand down' on axing climate page

Robin Bravender and Hannah Hess, E&E News reporters

Published: Wednesday, January 25, 2017

The Trump administration has apparently walked back plans to scrub climate change references from U.S. EPA's website. "We've been told to stand down," an EPA employee told E&E News today. That directive comes after staff was told yesterday to remove the climate page from the EPA website, sparking a scramble by outside data specialists to download files.

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