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Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis

Forest service website among many sites affected as agencies scramble to comply with president’s orders

“USDA needs to adhere to requirements around records retention, so Archive or Unpublish landing pages focused on climate change,” an email sent to agency public affairs directors read. Trump repealed environmental protections put in place by Joe Biden, declared a energy emergency to hasten already-booming fossil fuel extraction and withdrew from the Paris climate agreement. In a letter sent on Wednesday, the office of personnel management directed agency heads to terminate grants and contracts related to “gender ideology”, ask staff to remove pronouns from their government emails, and disband resource groups on the issue, too.

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