As America Baked, Team Trump Axed More Than 1,600 Energy Efficiency Web Pages

Amy Gin and Flavio Pessoa,    -  Mother JonesStephan: I check the polls almost daily and it astonishes me that a bit over a third of Americans are too dim to realize how strongly psychopath Trump and his Congressional MAGAt Party serviles care nothing for the wellbeing of the American people. Their only interests are increasingly their power and their greed for increasingly their wealth. You want proof? Read this article. The Trump administration is deleting all information from government websites that would help Americans deal with climate change. Credit: J. David Ake / Getty As millions of Americans prepare for another brutal heatwave, it’s now harder to find information about ways to stay cool while saving energy and keeping utility costs down. At least 1,662 Department of Energy (DOE) webpages offering guidance on protecting the electrical grid during heatwaves have gone dark as of July 3, according to a Guardian analysis of a list of deleted URLs provided by researchers at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit that hosts a repository of more than a trillion archived webpages. These removals are just the latest example of a broader pattern: Information that conflicts with the administration’s priorities—from data on queer and trans youth to online resources from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—is being removed from federal websites and surveys. The Energy Department deletions coincide with the Trump administration’s latest push to undermine federal climate regulations. At least 18 webpages were removed within days of the proposed rollback to energy efficiency regulations for home appliances like air conditioners and heaters. If enacted, the proposed rollback would effectively undo decades [...]Read the Full Article »