EPA buries climate-change site for kids
Source: Washington Post
The Environmental Protection Agency has sidelined a website aimed at teaching schoolchildren about climate change, a public watchdog group has determined, as part of the agencys efforts to align online content with the new administrations values.
When the EPA announced on April 28 that its site was undergoing changes that reflect the agencys new direction under President Donald Trump and Administrator Scott Pruitt, it pointed to a snapshot of the website as it looked on Jan. 19, the day before Trump took office.
While it made it clear that this snapshot would not be updated, the idea was to allow the public to see what was being changed under the new administration.
But A Students Guide to Global Climate Change, a popular site that used to occupy a prominent place on the agencys main website, is not accessible from either the snapshot or by navigating the agencys home page, according to the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, a group that has been tracking what changes the new administration has been making to public science and environmental sites.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/06/epa-buries-climate-change-site-for-kids/?utm_term=.8097b728b4cb
My final unit of the year for Grade 7 science is weather and climate. This was one of my go-to resources, but no more. I'll have to see what Canada has, I suppose.
Thanks, Obama.
moondust
(19,958 posts)Archae
(46,301 posts)Their only true "values" are the stocks they own in big oil, gas, coal, etc.
Zambero
(8,962 posts)of global significance.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)of sh*t wrapped in an expensive suit with a dangling piece of red ribbon.
They_Live
(3,224 posts)Boy, did I know.