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FCC Stops Privacy Rule Before It Takes Effect
In one area, the Trump administration will allow more access to information. Unfortunately, the information is not pubic data, but data on your personal use of the Internet and access will be given to private sector marketers. The Trump Administration’s FCC stayed the FCC’s recently adopted Privacy Rules before they could take effect on March […]
EPA Stops Collecting Some Methane Information
Another reduction in information gathering: EPA Drops Request for Methane Information from Oil and Gas Industry, By Ellen M. Gilmer, Scientific American (March 3, 2017). Companies are no longer required to provide information about onshore equipment and controls that could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Mark Brownstein, vice president of climate and energy for the […]
Cuts to NOAA Climate Change Information Gathering
One of the ways that the government decreases public access to important information is to just stop collecting it. The Trump administration has proposed cutting research funding to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a leading climate science agency. The biggest cut would be to NOAA’s satellite division, known as National Environmental Satellite, Data and […]
EPA mirrors its own pre-Trump website
Gizmodo and TechCrunch are reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put a mirror of its own website online — a “snapshot” from January 19, the day before Trump was sworn in as president. The EPA posted a backup of its website dated just before inauguration day, by Devin Coldewey techcrunch (Feb 16, 2017). […]
Dept of Transportation Suspends Public Comments on Two Measures
March 4, 2017 / Leave a comment
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has suspended public comment on two proposed consumer-protection measures that the Obama administration put forward during its last months in office. One measure simply requested comments in order to help the Department determine if it should regulate the common airline practice of offering less information to travel vendors such as […]
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