🌡️EPA staff ordered to delete 50 years of climate data
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EPA staff got orders on July 30, 2025: delete fifty years of climate and pollution data by August 15. Gone forever. The Trump administration calls the data "outdated and biased," but scientists say destroying these records wipes out evidence of corporate pollution and warming trends. Companies that poisoned communities are cheering—no more data means no more lawsuits.
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Why This Matters
Evidence of corporate pollution vanishes forever in two weeks
Companies that poisoned communities celebrate as proof of their crimes gets deleted from existence.
Future generations can't prove climate change when records disappear
Destroying temperature data creates false "uncertainty" about warming that's already killing people.
Your cancer lawsuit dies when EPA deletes contamination evidence
Communities suing polluters lose cases because government destroyed proof of toxic exposure.
Download EPA data NOW before August 15 destruction deadline
Visit epa.gov/data-download and archive everything—citizen backups preserve truth government wants destroyed.
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Categorize these impacts of climate data deletion.
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Match each deleted data tool to what communities lose without it.
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What federal agency removed all climate change references from its homepage in 2025?
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What percentage of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions does the EPA's reporting program track?
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Why do businesses actually need the EPA's greenhouse gas reporting data?
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What did EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin call efforts to address climate change?
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How does eliminating climate data serve fossil fuel interests?
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Arrange these events showing how climate data disappeared under Trump.
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The EPA's climate change information was completely deleted from the internet.
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International climate cooperation requires countries to share emissions data.
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