Why Donald Trump’s environmental data purge is so much worse this time
Now that we're about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, we can take stock of his administration's destruction of online environmental resources. It's worse than last time. It's also, seemingly, just the beginning - paving the way forward for the president's polluting agenda.
A watchdog group that monitors publicly-available environmental data has recorded 70 percent more federal website changes during Trump's first 100 days in office in 2025 compared to the start of his first term in 2017.
Federal agencies are taking broader swings to ax public resources from their websites this time around, the report sh …