The EPA won't be shutting down its open data website after all
 

The EPA won't be shutting down its open data website after all
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Scientists and data experts are closely tracking the websites of federal agencies, **ting changes to pages dealing with climate change and energy since President Donald Trump took ******.*

On Monday, they **ticed an alarming message posted to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) open data website, indicating it would shut down on Friday, April 28.

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Friday is the day the current federal stopgap funding bill expires. The EPA apparently worried that Congress wouldn't pass a new continuing resolution to fund the government, and preemptively planned to end the Open Data service, according to the contractor managing the site, 3 Round Stones in Arlington, Virginia. Read more...

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