Another US agency deletes references to climate change on government website
by Jamiles Lartey from on (#303AD)
The term 'climate change' was changed to simply 'climate' on website of the National Institutes of Health, the world's leading public health research body
The National Institutes of Health deleted multiple references to climate change on its website over the summer, continuing a trend that began when the Trump administration took charge of the dot.gov domain.
The changes were first outlined in a report by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), which has been using volunteers to track changes to roughly 25,000 pages across multiple government agencies since Trump took office. EDGI counted five instances in which the term "climate change" was changed to simply "climate" on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) site.
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