USDA Settles With Farmers, Groups Over Purged Climate Websites

The US Department of Agriculture reached a settlement with environmental and farmer advocacy groups over access to online tools regarding climate change risks and resilience, the agency told a federal court Tuesday.

The climate risk viewer and old-growth forest inventory will remain online and available to the public until the USDA sends all data sets directly to the groups in the litigation, according to the proposed order submitted to Judge Margaret M. Garnett of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

• The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the ...