WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has edited its website by eliminating mentions of human-driven climate change and adjusted certain pages to emphasize the "natural processes" behind climate change, media reported Tuesday.
The EPA page on "Causes of Climate Change," for example, previously included a statement from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that noted, "It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land." That statement has been deleted from the page, The Washington Post reported.
Another page, which once described the key indicators of a changing climate, such as rising seas and shrinking Arctic ice, has been deleted entirely, the report noted.
The EPA under Donald Trump's administration has rolled back prior regulations and reduced the agency's focus on climate change.
In March, the agency announced plans to target more than two dozen rules and policies in what it called the "most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history," moving to reconsider Biden-era rules that limited greenhouse gas emissions.
In late July, the agency released a proposal to rescind the Obama-era "2009 Endangerment Finding," which paved the way for regulations, including the "Biden-Harris Administration's electric vehicle mandate."
"If finalized, the proposal would repeal all resulting greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines," the agency said in a statement on July 29.
Critics say these changes risk increasing greenhouse gas emissions significantly over the coming decades. ■
