"Scientists and data experts are closely tracking the websites of federal agencies, noting changes to pages dealing with climate change and energy since President Donald Trump took office.
On Monday, they noticed an alarming message posted to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) open data website, indicating it would shut down on Friday, April 28.
Friday is the day the current federal stopgap funding bill expires. The EPA apparently worried that Congress wouldn't pass a new continuing resolution to fund the government, and preemptively planned to end the Open Data service, according to the contractor managing the site, 3 Round Stones in Arlington, Virginia."
Maria Gallucci reports for Mashable April 24, 2017.
SEE ALSO:
"EPA: Agency Says It Won't Shutter Open Data Site" (Greenwire)
"Did 'people power' save a trove of EPA data from a shutdown by Trump?" (Los Angeles Times)
"Will the EPA's Open Data Web service be shut down? Agency responds to 'rumors'" (AOL News)
"EPA Web Site Pop-Up Fuels Fears of Open Data Shutdown" (Snopes)
"EPA's Open Data Shutdown That Wasn't" (Federal Computer Week)
"No The EPA's Open Data Website Is Not Going Away - The Future Of Open Science Data" (Forbes)
"Rumors of EPA Website Shutdown Create a Micro-Panic" (Inverse)
"What is EPA Open Data, and why would it shut down?" (Popular Science)
"Activists scrape EPA data after warning of website shutdown" (Daily Dot)
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