Not Talking about Climate Change

Reference to "Climate Change" is being scrubbed from Federal government websites.

Politico reported on January 31, 2025 that according to an internal USDA email "employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review."

Futurism.com noted "The move could lead to the deletion of information from the Forest Service, Rural Housing and Utility Services, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, among other subagencies. The memo has also circulated to the EPA, according to reporting by Jacobin.

The website for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states it's mission is "to protect human health and the environment," but it has no metion of climate change. But the EPA still says it "partners with more than 50 data contributors from various government agencies, academic institutions, and other U.S and international organizations to compile a key set of indicators related to the causes and effects of climate change."

The EPA has the following links to "learn more about greenhouse gas emissions, including sources, trends, and key findings and data":

• Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks report

• Inflation Reduction Act

• Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

• Climate Change Research

• EPA’s 2024-2027 Climate Adaptation Plan

• EPA's 2021 Climate Adaptation Plan (pdf) (2.31 MB, October 2021, 231-R-210-01)

• EPA's 2014 Climate Adaptation Plan (pdf) (12.44 MB, June 2014, EPA 100-K-14-001)

• EPA's 2013 Climate Change Adaptation Plan (pdf) (11.93 MB, June 2013)

• EPA's 2012 Climate Change Adaptation Plan (pdf) (1.11 MB, June 29, 2012)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate.gov "provides timely and authoritative scientific data and information about climate science, adaptation, and mitigation." The NOAA still has a Global Climate Dashboard.

The NOAA Climate.gov Facebook page still lists the following Essential Principles

1. Scientists understand the climate system through interdisciplinary observations and modeling. (Oct. 29, 2024)

2. Greenhouse gases shape Earth’s Climate (November 4, 2024)

3. Burning fossil fuels and other human activities are causing the planet to warm (November 12, 2024)

4. Rapid warming and other large-scale climate changes threaten human and ecological systems (November 19, 2024)

5. Climate justice is possible if climate actions are equitable (November 15, 2024)

6. Humans can adapt social, built, and natural environments to better wioststand the impacts of climate change (December 4, 2024)

7. Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities to net zero by 2050 can help limit global warming and climate change impacts. (December 7, 2024)

8. A livable and sustainable future for all is possible with rapid, just and transformational climate action. (December 17, 2024)

Other institutions are also adjusting to the new administration's shift away from climate change. On February 6, 2025, Bloomberg reported that "The Federal Reserve has ended its program that required the biggest US banks to submit data for climate stress tests, according to people familiar with the matter." The six biggest US banks were participating in a pilot exercise which started in 2023, but "even before Trump returned to the White House, Fed Chair Jerome Powell had made clear he doesn’t consider climate a policy issue for the US central bank to focus on." In the meantime, several "banks in the EU commit to the climate group deserted by Wall Street."