A recent Freedom of Information Act suit over the purge of climate information from US Department of Agriculture websites offers courts an opportunity to define how government records must be indexed as the Trump administration overhauls agency agendas, scholars say.
The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York alleges the agency illegally scrapped essential webpages without public notice last month, after USDA Director of Digital Communications Peter Rhee ordered staff to archive or publish “any landing pages focused on climate change.”
The agency did so without explanation, and there’s no record of how many pages, climate mapping tools, or policy ...
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