Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites
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Summary
The USDA will restore webpages providing information about climate change that were removed shortly after President Donald Trump took office.
This reversal follows a lawsuit by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, which suggested the removal of the pages violated several federal laws.
The USDA has said that work to restore the pages, which should be completed within two weeks, is already underway.
The pages contained an online tool called Climate Risk Viewer, which shows how climate change may affect US water supplies and waterways.
The Trump administration has faced repeated lawsuits from groups seeking to protect data and information resources from what they view as political interference.
The administration has removed numerous webpages and downgraded information about climate change across numerous government agencies.
This includes Environmental Protection Agency pages and references to the topic being removed or downplayed in government budget documents.