The US Department of Agriculture will re -publish climate change information online after the farmer’s lawsuit

In the first days of the president Donald TrumpThe second administration, federal agencies including He was requested to remove information about climate change from their websites. Now, the US Department of Agriculture has committed to re -deleted content after a lawsuit on behalf of the Northeastern Organic Agriculture Association in New York, the National Council for the Defense of Resources and the Environmental Action Group. According to letter The agency has already been sent to the provincial court judge, and it has already begun in the restoration process and expects to “greatly complement” the effort within about two weeks.

The materials removed from the US Department of Agriculture sites in February included content about climate transmission, forest conservation, climate change, and clean energy project investments in rural areas. Filed a lawsuit against the prosecutors on the basis that removing this information violates the Law of Freedom of Information, which allows the public access to important federal records, as well as the failure to submit an advanced notice required by the law to limit paper work and without the pre -decision decision of the Administrative Procedure Law. The US Department of Agriculture said it “will restore the web content related to the climate change that was removed after the transformation, including all the US Ministry’s web pages and interactive tools mentioned in the prosecutor’s complaint.”

“This is a great victory and an important first step. The members of the public, including our customers, depend on information from the US Department of Agriculture to understand how climate change affects the forests of our nation, food supplies and energy systems,” He said Stephanie Crane, a lawyer at the Knight Eve, the amendment Institute, which helped file the lawsuit. “The US Department of Agriculture was mistaken to remove these web pages in the first place, and it must comply with federal law to move forward.”