E.P.A. Erases Mention of Humans Causing Climate Change From Some Web Pages

The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed the fact that human activity is driving climate change from a handful of pages on its website. The information was deleted from one webpage titled Causes of Climate Change, and another that tracks the impacts of the global warming in the United States. The changes comes as the Trump administration takes aggressive action to , gas and , the burning of which is the main driver of global warming. Mr. Trump, who , has eliminated climate regulations and made it easier to develop fossil fuels and harder to build and . Chris Wright, the energy secretary, commissioned five that downplayed the seriousness of global warming. And the E.P.A. under Administrator Lee Zeldin is poised to , a move that would erase the federal governments legal authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other planet-warming pollution. E.P.A. is trying to bury the evidence on human-caused climate change, Rachel Cleetus, the senior policy director for the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit science advocacy organization. We are having trouble retrieving the article content. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and your Times account, or for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? . Want all of The Times? .