US EditionEnvironmental Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Removing Climate Websites
- Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal court to restore websites that track pollution and climate impacts on low-income communities, claiming the Trump administration illegally removed them.
- The lawsuit was filed by Public Citizen and several other organizations against the Trump administration.
- The removed tools included the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool and EJScreen, which track environmental justice data.
- Zach Shelley stated, "These data and tools save lives," emphasizing the negative impact of removing access to this information.
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Environmental and Science Groups Sue Trump Admin for Deleting Environmental Justice and Climate Information From Federal Agency Websites
Environmental and science groups are suing the Trump administration for removing public information concerning climate and the environment from federal agency websites. The Sierra Club, the Environmental Integrity Project, California Communities Against Toxics and Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) filed a complaint on Monday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. “The removal of these websites and the critical data t…
Environmental Groups Sue the Trump Administration to Restore Web Tools Critical for Gauging Climate and Pollution Impacts - Inside Climate News
The removal of websites designed to help disadvantaged communities will hurt those communities the most, lawyers argue.By Georgina GustinWhen the Trump administration took down websites over the past three months that track pollution and climate impacts on low-income communities, it removed key sources of government data about the environmental risks faced by tens of thousands of Americans.
Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Removal of Climate and Environmental Justice Websites and Data
A group of environmental and science organizations, represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group, today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s removal of public information from climate and environmental justice federal agency websites. The Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project, Union of Concerned Scientists, and California Communities Against Toxics joined the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Di…
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