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Environmental Protection AgencyUnder direction of the Trump Administration, it has removed some of its language noting Climate change is driven by human burning of fossil fuels,
information noting that Humans are the drivers of climate change It has been removed from one of the agency’s webpages titled “Causes of Climate Change” and from another webpage tracking the effects of global warming in the US. new York Times Report.
The removal comes amid efforts by the Trump administration to promote oil, gas and coal in energy production. The burning of those fuel sources is the primary driver of climate change.
President Donald Trump Climate change is increasingly being dismissed, called a “hoax” and worked on End fossil fuel regulations While renewable energy initiatives have been made more difficult. Earlier this year, the President eliminated a tax credit that encouraged car buyers to purchase electric vehicles.
Rachel Cletus, senior policy director of the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said: Times The EPA is “trying to bury the evidence on human-caused climate change” and called the deletions “part of an ongoing attack on science” by the Trump administration.
Currently, the EPA’s website discussing the causes of climate change includes only natural phenomena – such as Earth’s orbital changes and solar activity – as drivers of climate change.
According to , two previous sections of the site, “Climate Change Indicators” and “Climate Change Impacts and Analysis”, have been removed entirely. E&E News,
Independent EPA is requested to comment.
Messages about humans and climate change were evident in an archived version of the EPA’s website from October.
“It is clear that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, oceans and land,” the website said in October.
The current website acknowledges that “recent climate changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone,” but other contributing factors are not described.
When questioned about the changes by E&E News, an EPA spokesperson gave a Trump-like response, referencing a “climate cult.”
“Unlike the previous administration, the Trump EPA is focused on protecting human health and the environment while empowering the Great American Comeback, not on a left-wing political agenda,” the spokesperson told the outlet. “As such, this agency no longer takes marching orders from the climate cult.”
However, not all references to human-induced climate change have been removed.
A section of the agency’s site explaining “climate science basics” provides information that climate change since the 1950s has been largely driven by human activity.
“Greenhouse gases come from a variety of human activities, including burning fossil fuels for heat and energy, clearing forests, fertilizing crops, storing waste in landfills, raising livestock and producing some types of industrial products,” the webpage said Monday.