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Trump Administration officials are systematically editing Department of Energy websites to strip references to climate change, downplay impacts of fossil fuels and scale back benefits of clean energy.

On March 29, 2017, EPA head Scott Pruitt disregarded robust scientific evidence and announced that he would not ban a pesticide that poses a clear risk to children, farm workers, and rural drinking water users.

The President’s proposed 2018 budget would terminate four essential NASA Earth science missions: PACE, CLARREO Pathfinder, OCO-3, and DSCOVR Earth.

In March 2017, EPA Administrator Pruitt falsely claimed that carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming.
 

The Trump EPA withdrew a request (initiated by the Obama EPA) for data on methane emissions from the US oil and gas industry.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stopped including questions about LGBT people in two surveys.

An obscure, radical, and rarely used congressional trick called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) has put crucial victories on public health and the environment at risk.

The EPA's White House transition team cut staff attendance at an annual Alaska environmental conference in half, which had conference attendees wondering about the future of environmental protection for their communities.

President Trump's executive order requiring agencies to rescind two regulations for each new one they promulgate is arbitrary and unreasonable, violates the law, and threatens public health and safety.

Scientific content has been changed on several agency websites in the early weeks of the Trump administration—and the alterations share some common themes.