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"Shortly after President Trump's swearing in Friday, most of the content on the Department of Energy's home page disappeared into the ether."
"A new tool launched by the Columbia Law School on Donald Trump's first day in office is tracking every step the Trump administration takes to roll back or eliminate existing federal rules on climate change and energy."
The Trump "landing team" has ordered U.S. Environmental Protection Agency staff not communicate publicly -- whether via press releases, website, or social media.
At a time when government information may be harder than ever to access, WatchDog offers a unique guide to leaks that reporters can offer potential whistleblowers. Also in the latest column, sealed records on a weedkiller-cancer connection, secret talks on coal-ash regs and more.
"The Interior Department reactivated its official Twitter accounts early Saturday after an abrupt shutdown following shares of two tweets during the inauguration the agency considered unsympathetic to President Trump."
"Within moments of the inauguration of President Trump, the official White House website on Friday deleted nearly all mentions of climate change. The one exception: Mr. Trump’s vow to eliminate the Obama administration’s climate change policies, which previously had a prominent and detailed web page on whitehouse.gov."
"As former U.S. vice president Al Gore filmed the sequel to his environmental documentary last year, he did not expect to be dealing with a new president who has dismissed climate change as a hoax."
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