Some of the changes to the site so far: Carbon pollution is no longer listed as a contributor to climate change; Obama’s legacy is being scrubbed; international commitments could be in jeopardy.
A leaked memo reveals explicitly orders for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to cease communicating with or responding to requests from elected lawmakers.
The executive order gives state governors the ability to fast-track a pipeline project by deeming it a “national priority”—such projects would then bypass public participation and environmental review.
The Trump administration has moved to muzzle federal officials. The EPA; Departments of Health & Human Services, Transportation, Agriculture, and Interior; and the National Institutes of Health were ordered to halt press releases, social media, blogs, and web content.
