EPA website gets radical makeover

THE US Environmental Protection Agency’s website has been getting a climate change makeover.

The heavy edits came hours before tens of thousands of climate change activists marched to the White House during a weekend protest.

The agency eliminated EPA.gov pages relating to climate science, projections of the future impacts of humancaused climate change, and descriptions of the Obama administration’s signature climate program, the Clean Power Plan.

“Our website needs to reflect the views of the leadership of the agency,” said spokesman J.P. Freire.

The Donald Trump-appointed EPA chief Scott Pruitt, the former Oklahoma attorney general, led 14 lawsuits against the agency in his former post.

Mr Pruitt made waves in March when he said he was not convinced carbon dioxide from human activity was the main driver of climate change.

‘“I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do,” he said on CNBC. “So no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”

On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order meant to loosen Obama-era restrictions on offshore oil drilling – one of the previous administration’s signature environmental moves.