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Interior Department Scrubs Climate Change From Agency Website. Again.

Type
Literature
Publication
Visser, Nick. 2017. Interior Department Scrubs Climate Change From Agency Website. Again.
Year Published
2017
Organization
NGO
Description

The Department of the Interior has removed almost all mentions of climate change from an agency website documenting efforts to address the phenomenon within government programs for Native Americans. BuzzFeed News first noticed a webpage for the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Tribal Climate Resilience Program, originally tasked with “mainstreaming climate change considerations into all Bureau of Indian Affairs activities,” was changed sometime over the past month. The program is now called simply the Tribal Resilience Program and has a mission statement noticeably less science-forward.

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