FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 6, 2025
Report Shows Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump Administration
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August 6, 2025 – In its first six months, the Trump administration has significantly altered the federal environmental information landscape. According to a new report by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), information about environmental justice and climate change have been particular targets, with swift disappearances across federal websites.
“The pace and severity of this administration’s attacks on environmental information have been far worse than in the first Trump administration,” says lead author Izzy Pacenza. EDGI began monitoring federal environmental websites in the first Trump administration and this time observed 70% more website changes in President Trump’s first 100 days in office. And that was just the start.
Changes to environmental websites under the second Trump administration have also been bolder. Most dramatically, information about environmental racism has been entirely excised from federal websites. On the EPA’s website, for example, all pages about environmental justice are gone. Meanwhile, the reshaping of NOAA’s flagship climate.gov website is currently underway, with the website redirected in June and the entire website staff terminated by July 1.
“Trustworthy information is critical for a functioning democracy,” says lead author Gretchen Gehrke. “These removals reflect a broad deregulatory agenda by this administration to disavow the intersecting issues of environmental justice and climate change.”
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The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) analyzes federal environmental data, websites, institutions, and policy. We seek to improve environmental data stewardship and to promote environmental health and environmental justice.