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The Trump Administration has been quietly removing content from federal websites - here's the before and after

Jan 11, 2018, 21:26 IST

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)

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The Trump Administration is quietly changing things on .gov websites - and a group of academics and non-profits is keeping track.

The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) released a new report on Wednesday that details how references to our changing climate and greenhouse gases have been erased from federal webpages since President Donald Trump took office.

But new side-by-side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

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However, the group also said that climate research and data does not seem to be getting totally scrapped from online government archives, and federally funded reporting on climate change continues. In November, the administration signed off on a report from federal scientists saying that "there is no convincing alternative explanation" for the "continuing, rapid, human-caused warming of the global atmosphere and ocean."

Nonetheless, these snapshots reveal what's missing from the updated federal websites:

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