"EPA Removes Mentions of 'Climate Change' in Water Utilities Program"

"Agency changed ‘Climate Ready’ to ‘Resilient’ from the title and webpage before Trump took office, in possible anticipation of coming chill from the administration."

"The Environmental Protection Agency's website has gotten a makeover since the Trump administration took office, with some references to climate change now wiped from its pages.  

But the agency removed the word "climate" from a division's name and webpage even before President Donald Trump's inauguration, suggesting that EPA employees may have started constraining information in anticipation of the incoming chill from the new administration.

The division once known as Climate Ready Water Utilities was rebranded as the Creating Resilient Water Utilities in late December, according to archived webpages. By then, Myron Ebell had been in place as head of the agency's transition team for more than a month. Ebell, a senior fellow at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute who has long promoted climate denial in his work, was considered a threat to the agency's mission by many of the career employees."

Georgina Gustin reports for InsideClimate News February 28, 2017.