NIEHS’s Only Journal – Environmental Health Perspectives – Is Suddenly Removed
The NIEHS Environmental Health Perspectives home page on November 5, 2025 (left), and December 1, 2025 (right), after it was taken down. […]
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Federal Agencies Post Incendiary Banners About the Government Shutdown
This post is part of the EDGI Website Governance Team’s “Highlights from the Change Log” blog series. The purpose of this series is to highlight interesting changes we have observed in the content of, or access to, federal websites. We want to share these changes to encourage public engagement with and discussion of their significance, as well as understanding of the ephemeral nature of website information. These website changes happened in October 2025 and feature various incendiary banners about the October government shutdown.
Trump Administration Intensifies Suppression of Climate Information
In July and August 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies altered and removed several webpages related to climate change. Pages spanned topics including climate adaptation and resilience, climate impacts, and the government’s role in addressing climate change.
EPA Undermines Public Process and Ignores Evidence in Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding
EPA Undermines Public Process and Ignores Evidence in Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding On September 22, 2025, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative’s […]
EPA Removes Information About its HBCU and Minority Serving Institutions Advisory Council
In April 2025, the EPA removed information about its Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions (HBCU-MSI) Advisory Council. The EPA deleted the webpage dedicated to this advisory council along with its entry from the landing page for all Federal Advisory Committees at EPA. The EPA’s Office of Public Engagement and Environmental Education landing page deleted all information about working with HBCU-MSIs, including a paragraph and multiple links describing EPA’s activities with HBCU-MSIs and the HBCU-MSI Advisory Council. The pages that had been linked are no longer functional; all now return errors saying, “Sorry, but this web page does not exist.”
NOAA removes “Teaching Climate” resources from Climate.gov
Highlights from the Change Log: NOAA removes “Teaching Climate” resources from Climate.gov Welcome! This post is part of the EDGI Website Monitoring […]
How Information Was Suppressed in Trump’s First 100 Days (and How It Compares to Last Time)
In the first 100 days of Trump’s second term in office, a barrage of removals disappeared environmental data and information across agency […]
EPA Removes EJScreen from Its Website
On February 5th, EPA removed several web pages about the environmental justice mapping and screening tool, EJScreen, as well as the tool itself. These pages, which now cannot be accessed or simply say, “Sorry, but this web page does not exist,” include:
FEMA Renames “Climate Resilience” Website “Future Conditions”
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has renamed its “Climate Resilience” website to “Future Conditions,” and has removed much of the climate-specific language from the site’s landing page. For example, FEMA replaced the introductory sentence from “Climate change is the defining crisis of our time” to “Disaster incidents are rising due to increased human vulnerability, exposure and a changing climate.”
Trump Removes Access to CEJST, Our New Coalition Restores It
Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access.