During the first half of President Trump's second term, significant changes were made to online environmental resources, with a 70 percent increase in federal website modifications compared to his first term. The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) reported 632 notable changes to federal websites in the initial 100 days of 2025. These changes potentially hide pollution impacts on communities and replace accurate climate change reports with misinformation. Critics point out that suppressing data allows for unchecked manipulation of environmental narratives.
A watchdog group that monitors publicly-available environmental data has recorded 70 percent more federal website changes during Trump's first 100 days in office in 2025 compared to the start of his first term in 2017. Federal agencies are taking broader swings to ax public resources from their websites this time around, the report shows.
The Trump administration has not only tossed out the most authoritative national reports on climate change, they're starting to replace facts and evidence with disinformation. We're seeing a revisionist history unfold.
If you suppress data ... you can say anything you want to say if you remove evidence to the contrary, says Gretchen Gehrke, one of the lead authors of the report published this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI).
Looking just at the first 100 days of Trump's second term compared to the start of his first term, EDGI noted 632 important changes to federal websites this year compared to 371 in 2017.
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