The major resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and may disappear more soon because Trump administration works to scrap anything that climate change, racial equity Or to do with gender identity.
alert Floral on social media on Friday Adjacent Pure In the Disease Control and Prevention Center (CDC), calling calls to save data as soon as possible. CDC shares data on a wide range of subjects from chronic diseases to a wide range of subjects, from the use of tobacco, vaccination and conception in the US – and it is just one of the agencies in Crosshair.
The main data portal of the CDC, which was much higher in those datasets, was offline until Friday night. “Data.cdc.gov is temporarily offline to comply with Executive Order 14168 Sexual ideology protect women from extremism and restore organic truth to the federal government“A notice on the webpage says, saying that it will be available once again with the executive order” in compliance “.
Researchers have been collecting official websites for months
fortunately, Researchers are storing government websites for months. This is specific with every change in administration, but was even more mandatory with the return of Donald Trump in the office. Access to 20 percent of the website of Environmental Protection Agency was removed During the first round of Trump's Deregurate Spree. And now, it seems, similar moves are happening fast.
CDC Social vulnerability index And Environment justice index – Tools that can show whether particular population may face health risks – both have been taken offline within last week. In 2007, during the Bush administration, social scientists, geography and statisticians began to develop the social vulnerability index (SVI), including demographic and socio -economic factors including poverty, breed and ethnicity over the years.
The Biden administration launched the Environment Justice Index (EJI) in 2022. “Our nations, especially in the communities with low -income communities and colored communities, continued to bear the brunt of pollution. Our focused attention requires to meet the needs of these communities and we just to use the Environment Justice Index, “Then Health and Human Services Secretary Javier Bekerra Said in a press release at that time.
Since stepping into the office, Trump has tried to undo the work of previous administration to remove health inequalities when it comes to the race and gender. In executive Order Trump signed to undo the policies of Biden-era, the President wrote that “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) “contaminated” government institutions.
He also claimed that “climate extremism has exploded inflation and uprooted businesses with regulation.” During his first term in the office, one was close 40 percent decline in the word “climate change” On websites for federal environmental agencies. It will soon be known what damage may occur this time, but some webpages have already disappeared. US Transport Department “Priorities“The website has removed pages on both” climate and stability “and” equity “. It follows an internal Memorandum This week USDOT was sent to direct operating administration and eventually to identify and “finish” biden-era related activities related to climate change and DII.
Donald Trump's Efforts to limit foreign aid It seems that HIV and AIDS are being taken. There was a data webpage for the US President's emergency plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Taken down this weekPepfar has been around since 2003 and more than 20.6 million people have been helped to reach antiretroviral therapy in 2024 in 2024. Snapshot Before taking down the website taken by Wakeback Machine on 26 January.
End of term web archive The project has saved the material on the websites of the federal government during each President's transition since 2008. Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), formed after Trump, were also first elected, they also make changes in government websites and work to make the collected dataset available elsewhere. It worked with partners including the Open Environmental Data Project to back up the data from the CDC's Social Valanarity Index and Environmental Justice Index and shared it. Web page For Public environment data project,
However, if these datasets have been stored, they are not as useful when they are not updated. “Any dataset has a lifetime of utility,” says Dan Pisut, Senior Chief Engineer of GIS software company Esie.
The aging dataset cannot fully represent what is actually happening on the ground, so people have to be careful about how they use them, Telling Pisut. It can be risky, he says, but “nothing better than nothing.”
Update, 1 February: This post has been updated with information data.cdc.gov Going offline.
Update, 5 February: Data.cdc.gov Now returned online with a notice, which says, “The CDC website is being revised to follow President Trump's executive orders”.
This post has also been updated to include groups that support data from CDC's social vulnerability index and environment justice index