The EPA completely axed its climate change websites. But why are NASA’s still live?

Sometime during the night of October 16, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) eliminated over 80 climate change websites — many of the last vestiges to the agency’s online recognition of climate change. 

The deletions — caught by the watchdog group Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) — show a growing disparity between how the regulation-focused EPA increasingly masks globally-agreed upon climate science from the public, while agencies like NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) continue to promote reliable climate research. 

Of note, both the EPA and NASA are sprawling federal agencies directly answerable to the office of the president. Yet, while NASA maintains a slew of informative, diligently updated, and visually-rich climate change websites, the EPA’s sites have been gradually obscured, and now eliminated.  Read more…

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