The US Department of Agriculture was accused in a new lawsuit Monday of illegally purging “numerous essential webpages” containing climate change-related information.
The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, said USDA Director of Digital Communications Peter Rhee ordered staff to archive or unpublish “any landing pages focused on climate change” last month without explaining why the department was doing so.
The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, which represents farmers in the state, says the move violated the Paperwork Reduction Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and Freedom of Information Act because the ...
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