The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) has released a report which documents the rapid and thorough deletion of environmental information by the Trump administration.
- Press Release: Report Shows Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump Administration FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (August 6, 2025).
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.
- Report: Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration by Isabella Pacenza, Gretchen Gehrke, Rob Brackett, Anita Carey, Abby Chernila, Heather Dungey, Jose Gonzalez, Mya Heard, Alejandro Paz, Grace Poudrier, Michael Sholinbeck, Shannan Lenke Stoll, and EDGI (August 6, 2025). (PDF).
The report Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration examines management of federal websites related to environmental regulation in the first six months of the second Trump administration. In this time, the Trump administration has significantly altered the federal environmental information landscape as information about environmental justice and climate change have been rewritten and deleted.
The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) is a North American network with members from numerous academic institutions and nonprofit or grassroots organizations, as well as caring and committed volunteers and employees who come from a broad spectrum of work and life backgrounds. EDGI promotes open and accessible government data and information along with evidence-based policymaking.
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