It has been over a year since the Trump administration and EPA chief Scott Pruitt got rid of the government’s climate change website. At the time, going to the site took you here.
This page is being updated.
Thank you for your interest in this topic. We are currently updating our website to reflect EPA's priorities under the leadership of President Trump and Administrator Pruitt. If you're looking for an archived version of this page, you can find it on the January 19 snapshot.
That’s still where you are taken. And here’s the same “newest” release of info—dated to April 28 of 2017.
EPA.gov, the website for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, is undergoing changes that reflect the agency’s new direction under President Donald Trump and Administrator Scott Pruitt. The process, which involves updating language to reflect the approach of new leadership, is intended to ensure that the public can use the website to understand the agency's current efforts. The changes will comply with agency ethics and legal guidance, including the use of proper archiving procedures. For instance, a snapshot of the last administration’s website will remain available from the main page.
“As EPA renews its commitment to human health and clean air, land, and water, our website needs to reflect the views of the leadership of the agency,” said J.P. Freire, Associate Administrator for Public Affairs. “We want to eliminate confusion by removing outdated language first and making room to discuss how we’re protecting the environment and human health by partnering with states and working within the law.”
The first page to be updated is a page reflecting President Trump’s Executive Order on Energy Independence, which calls for a review of the so-called Clean Power Plan. Language associated with the Clean Power Plan, written by the last administration, is out of date. Similarly, content related to climate and regulation is also being reviewed.
Of course, a climate change website in this administration is like a website called “WE ARE THE SWAMP.” It isn’t coming back because it contradicts the entire policy of both Trump’s EPA and Trump’s business scams on the American public. In January, Inside Climate News reported on internal emails showing how much hands on work against Climate Change and propaganda manipulation EPA chief Scott Pruitt was doing in 2017. Brian Kahn over at Earther says it best.
But equally germane—and in some ways, more consequential—to the climate site’s disappearance is the Trump administration’s focus on prolonging the carbon bubble as long as possible. That bubble is just like the housing, tech, or student loan bubbles you’ve surely read about, all created by wildly overvalued assets.
In the case of carbon bubble, it’s fossil fuels that are overvalued because there’s no price on all the carbon pollution our use of them is adding to the atmosphere. That will change because it has to, and some states and countries are already trying to make it happen by imposing carbon taxes or creating a market to trade emissions. It’s really just a question of when these efforts become mainstream, and how fast a price on carbon changes the energy system underpinning our economy.
Pruitt has ensured his fortune with the fossil fuel owners he sells out the American public for. Trump just does whatever he’s convinced was his idea.