News sites report employees across all agencies overseen by U.S. Department of Agriculture were instructed to take down climate change pages. Several recently active U.S. Forest Service web pages about climate change and its impacts on things like wildfires and ecosystems were either blocked or taken down by the agency Friday. People attempting to access the pages were shown messages saying “You are not allowed to access this page” or “Looks like you wandered off trail.” …Both Politico and the Hot Shot Wake Up, a news site specializing in wildfire coverage, reported employees across all agencies overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture were instructed by email to delete landing pages about climate change and those that track climate change references. The reason wasn’t immediately clear but it may be linked to President Donald Trump’s skepticism that climate change is real and caused by burning fossil fuels.
Additional coverage in Politico, by Zack Colman and Marcia Brown: USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites