Trump Administration Intensifies Suppression of Climate Information

A side-by-side view of EPA’s web page dedicated to Climate Adaptation on July 23, 2025 (left), and August 7, 2025 (right), after the page was deleted. Text highlighted in yellow was removed; text highlighted in blue was added. View the change on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20250723191237/20250807181203/https://www.epa.gov/climate-adaptation

Highlights from the Change Log: Trump Administration Intensifies Climate Information Suppression

Welcome! 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 August 2025 and feature the removal of several EPA webpages about climate change.

What Happened

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. In many cases, whole webpages were removed and are no longer publicly available. In other cases, pages remain accessible but their content has been altered, or access to further resources has been restricted.

Why We Think it’s Interesting 

The second Trump administration has been altering and removing federal environmental information since Inauguration Day, but the recent changes highlighted in this blog show that the Trump administration has expanded the scope of its climate change information suppression. 

EDGI released a report in August detailing information suppression in the first six months of the second Trump administration, which emphasized the administration’s erasure of environmental justice and equity information. By that point, significant climate information resources like the entire US Global Change Research Program website had been taken down, but climate change information had not been altered considerably on certain agencies’ websites, such as the EPA. However, in August, several pages in EPA’s “Climate Change Adaptation Resources” (ARC-X) website, including “Implications of Climate Change,” “Underlying Science for Climate Change Adaptation,” and the “Climate Resilience Evaluation and Adaptation Tool (CREAT)” were removed. All of the EPA’s “Climate Adaptation” webpages and “Resilience Investment” webpages were removed as well. 

Climate change information was also removed from other agency websites. In late July, the Department of Energy (DOE) renamed its “Climate Change” webpage to “Climate,” and revised the page to focus exclusively on the new, hotly contested, report it published on July 29. At the same time, the section in the NIH Almanac about how climate change affects human health was removed. 

These changes are even more significant in light of the fact that many occurred during the active public comment period for the EPA’s proposed rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding. Many of the removed and altered pages across EPA and other agency websites directly address information related to the Endangerment finding, such as climate impacts on public health. EDGI submitted a public comment opposing the rescission on the basis that information suppression violated the Administrative Procedure Act and undermined the public comment process for the proposed rule.