EPA Removes and Changes Climate Information from its Website
Climate Central, an organization of scientists and journalists, reports that the Trump administration has removed federal climate plans, tribal assistance programs, and references to international cooperation from the Environmental Protection Agency’s website. The EPA Has Started to Remove Obama-era Information, By Brian Kahn, Climate Central (February 2, 2017). The report also says: A mention of […]
Federal Gun Datasets Being Preserved in Fear Feds Will Withdraw Them
Wired reports today that research data on guns and violence have been suppressed in the past and that researchers are working to ensure that similar data on the websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are not lost if […]
Preliminary List of Official White House Twitter Accounts
whitehouse45 A public list by Ari Herzog.
FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email
TechCrunch and The Daily Dot report that the FBI will no longer accept Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by email starting next month. FBI axes FOIA requests by email, so dust off your fax machine, by Taylor Hatmaker TechCrunch (Feb 6, 2017). FBI will revert to using fax machines, snail mail for FOIA requests, […]
Trump FCC rescinds and revokes reports and actions
On Friday February 3, 2017, the FCC rescinded and revoked orders and reports that had been issued late in the Obama administration. Some of the reports can be found under transition.fcc.gov, but it is not clear if there are links to them from fcc.gov or if they will remain available to the public. The Benton […]