Farmers sued deleted climate data. So the government will return.

The Ministry of Agriculture will restore information about the climate change that was cleaned from his website when President Trump took office, according to the court documents submitted on Monday in a lawsuit on deletion.

The deleted data included pages on federal financing and loans, preserving forests and clean rural energy projects. It also included sections of natural resource preservation and resource service sites, and American forest service.Climate risk“Which included detailed maps showing how climate change can affect forests and national herbal lands.

The lawsuit filed in FebruaryThe Purge said depriving farmers’ information of making time sensitive time while facing the risks of climate change, such as heat waves, droughts, floods and forest fires.

The lawsuit was filed by the Northeastern Agriculture Association for Agriculture in New York, along with two environmental organizations, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Action Group.

Prosecutors sought the court order asking the administration to restore deleted pages. On Monday, the government said it would comply.

Jay Clayton, the American lawyer for the southern region of New York, wrote to Judge Margaret M. Garnit was that he was representing the Ministry of Agriculture in the lawsuit, and that the administration had already begun to restore the interactive pages and tools described in the case. He said that the administration “expects to complete the restoration process within about two weeks.”

Mr. Clayton asked the judge to postpone a hearing scheduled for May 21.

“We are happy that the US Department of Agriculture realized that its illegal cleansing of the climate related to the climate related to the climate is harmful to farmers and societies across the country,” said Jeffrey Stein, an assistant lawyer at Earthjustice, a non -profit environmental law that represents the prosecutors, along with the First Persian Institute amending at Columbia University.