Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer is looking to save the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate change data before President Trump erases it, Steyer’s group NextGen Climate announced Friday.
The group announced the launch of a mirror website called SaveOurEPA.com that looks to preserve the EPA’s “public-facing climate change website, which the Trump administration threatens to erase,” NextGen said.
A Trump spokesman said earlier this week that the administration had no plans to scrub the agency’s climate pages from its website entirely but was conducting an editorial review of all content.
The administration did remove all references to climate change and former President Barack Obama’s administration from the White House website. A mirror site to former Obama’s White House website was created by the government as an archive file that cannot be accessed through www.whitehouse.gov.
The move by NextGen Climate, an advocacy organization, to create a mirror site for a federal agency is a bit peculiar. It is meant “to serve the public good and protect the truth from Donald Trump’s plans to replace science with Big Oil talking points,” the group said.
“As Americans, we will not allow Donald Trump to erase the truth or rewrite history,” Steyer said. “This information belongs to the people, and the public has a right to know the truth. We will persist in our demand for the truth. We will not allow Trump and the oil corporations to create an Orwellian world full of lies and official misinformation.”
