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12-23-2017, 12:00 PM
The National Park Service removed climate change plans from website, but it may be for a good reason
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Earlier this month, the government watchdog group EDGI found that the climate change plans for 92 different national park sites had been removed from the National Park Service website.*
On Dec. 21, EDGI, short for Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, published a report (https://envirodatagov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/AAR-6-NPS-Climate-Action-Plans-171221.pdf) about the disappearance of the documents, which were available online as PDFs.*
SEE ALSO: Trump shrank 2 national monuments by nearly 2 million acres. He can't do that to Yellowstone. (http://mashable.com/2017/12/05/trump-slashed-size-of-national-monuments-but-cant-downsize-national-parks/)
The park service then responded to the report (https://envirodatagov.org/climate-action-plans-for-national-parks-removed-from-site/), telling EDGI that the climate change documents had only been removed temporarily so they could be improved to meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards: Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/22/nps-removes-climate-change-plans-from-park-website/)
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Earlier this month, the government watchdog group EDGI found that the climate change plans for 92 different national park sites had been removed from the National Park Service website.*
On Dec. 21, EDGI, short for Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, published a report (https://envirodatagov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/AAR-6-NPS-Climate-Action-Plans-171221.pdf) about the disappearance of the documents, which were available online as PDFs.*
SEE ALSO: Trump shrank 2 national monuments by nearly 2 million acres. He can't do that to Yellowstone. (http://mashable.com/2017/12/05/trump-slashed-size-of-national-monuments-but-cant-downsize-national-parks/)
The park service then responded to the report (https://envirodatagov.org/climate-action-plans-for-national-parks-removed-from-site/), telling EDGI that the climate change documents had only been removed temporarily so they could be improved to meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards: Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/22/nps-removes-climate-change-plans-from-park-website/)
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