28 January 2017

Fearing deletion, Tom Steyer copies Environmental Protection Agency website on climate change.

With President Trump in the White House, information about climate change has been disappearing from government websites.

Some fear the same thing could happen with the Environmental Protection Agency. Now the advocacy organization run by environmentalist and political donor Tom Steyer is taking steps to preserve the information.

NextGen Climate copied the website and made it available at SaveOurEPA.com .

"As Americans, we will not allow Donald Trump to erase the truth or rewrite history," Steyer said in a statement. "This information belongs to the people, and the public has a right to know the truth.

This article appeared in the Los Angeles Times on January 27, 2017.

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January 28, 2017

Fearing deletion, Tom Steyer copies Environmental Protection Agency website on climate change.

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