The mysterious disappearance of the phrase "climate change" from a CDC website

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The mysterious disappearance of the phrase ‘climate change’ from a CDC website

By Chris Mooney July 2 at 3:00 PM [link:[e-mail]|Email the author]

Shortly after President Trump’s election but before his formal inauguration, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agency focused on conducting research to improve workers’ health watered down a website on climate change’s contributions to occupational hazards, a new report has revealed.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s “Occupational Safety and Health and Climate” page had its name changed, so as to remove the phrase “climate change,” sometime on or after Nov. 14, 2016, according to a report by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. The old name was “Climate Change and Occupational Safety and Health.” Multiple other removals of the phrase “climate change” occurred at or around the same time.

It’s unclear why the changes were made. In a statement, the CDC described the changes as “planned updates.”
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The CDC did not respond to a question about whether the changes were made in anticipation of the Trump administration’s skepticism of climate-change-related programs.
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Chris Mooney covers climate change, energy, and the environment. He has reported from the 2015 Paris climate negotiations, the Northwest Passage, and the Greenland ice sheet, among other locations, and has written four books about science, politics and climate change. Follow https://twitter.com/chriscmooney

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1. He did this almost as soon as he took office.

The staff and research was cut dramatically and the govt sites blocked Climate Change info and past research from being released to the public. We have to rely on our scientific allies in other countries now. He did this with info about the ACA on govt sites too. He is controlling info that effects our health and future.