"Environmentalists are accusing the Trump administration of committing another act of “climate censorship” after a U.S. Forest Service administrator allegedly directed agency employees to remove references to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions from plans to open national forests and grasslands in Texas to new rounds of oil and natural gas drilling.
Environmentalists contend that a draft notice of the plans mentioning climate change and greenhouse gases was posted by the U.S. Forest Service to a federal website on Aug. 26 but was replaced the next day with a version without that language.
Using an open records request, the Arizona-based environmental group the Center For Biological Diversity obtained a copy of an email that made a reference to an unnamed deputy director ordering agency employees to remove all references to climate change and greenhouse gases from the notice, which was supposed to be released to solicit public comments about the proposal."
Sergio Chapa reports for the Houston Chronicle January 14, 2020.
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