Overview
- The EPA’s 'Causes of Climate Change' page was recast to emphasize natural processes and removed explicit references to fossil-fuel emissions and an IPCC citation on human influence.
- An entire 'Climate Change Indicators' subdomain with data, maps, and classroom-ready graphics is offline, eliminating a commonly used public resource.
- Wayback Machine records show the prior human-causes language was still live in early October, though the precise timing of the edits is unclear.
- An EPA spokesperson defended the revisions as upholding 'gold-standard science' and said the agency 'no longer takes marching orders from the climate cult.'
- Scientists and watchdogs, including Daniel Swain and the Union of Concerned Scientists, criticized the changes as misleading and politically driven as the EPA advances its plan to roll back the endangerment finding.