🌡️Trump administration orders deletion of 50 years of EPA 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 The Trump administration calls the data "outdated and biased," but scientists say destroying these records wipes out evidence of corporate pollution and warming trends.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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🔥 Fifty years of Chevron pollution records disappear August 15
The company faces $12 billion in pending groundwater lawsuits across six states. Evidence vanishing means automatic case dismissals.
📊 Temperature data from 1,200 weather stations gets deleted
This represents the longest continuous climate record in human history. Future scientists will have giant data holes from 1970-2025.
⚖️ Cancer clusters lose their smoking gun
DuPont paid $671 million in 2017 because EPA data proved C8 contamination. Similar communities cannot win without government evidence.
💾 University researchers launched backup servers in January
They are racing to save 847 terabytes before political appointees control scientific access forever.
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Categorize these impacts of climate data deletion.
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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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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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