A guide to the EPA data under threat by the Trump administration
by Matt Weiser from on (#2FYC3)
EPA data is kept in dozens of databases and represents decades of monitoring the American environment in fine detail. Here are some examples
Several highly publicized campaigns are taking place to save the data maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from becoming inaccessible to the public under the Trump administration.
"There is no reason to think the data is safe," says Gretchen Goldman, research director at the Center for Science and Democracy, a program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "The administration, so far, hasn't given any indication it will respect science and scientific data, especially when it's inconvenient to its policy agendas."
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