WASHINGTON: The US federal agency tasked with protecting the environment has deleted facts from its website about how human activity drives climate change, media outlets reported Tuesday.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tweaked its pages to focus on the “natural processes” driving climate change — like volcano eruptions and variation in solar activity — in October, the Washington Post reported.
A webpage titled “Causes of Climate Change” and another that tracks global warming impacts in the US were also altered, the New York Times reported.
And a page describing rising seas and shrinking Arctic ice — both key indicators of a changing climate — was also deleted, the Post reported.
President Donald Trump regularly rails against wind power and sustainable energy, calling for more drilling on US lands, and has slashed research and development to track and mitigate the effects of climate change.
In a statement to the Washington Post, EPA press secretary Brigit Hirsch distanced the Trump administration from predecessor Joe Biden’s “left wing political agendas,” adding: “As such, this agency no longer takes marching orders from the climate cult.”
Fossil fuel interests and extraction industries have lavished Trump with campaign donations and contributions, according to the Brennan Center.
The 79-year-old Republican has already made their policy wishes come true by rolling back electric vehicle rules, fuel-economy standards and other green domestic policies enacted by the Biden administration.
Trump’s climate denialism has also gone global, with his refusal to send a US representative to the COP meeting in Brazil, echoing his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement earlier this year.
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California, called the website deletions “one of the most dramatic scrubbings we’ve seen so far in the climate space,” the Post reported.
“More and more pages have either been completely removed from the public Internet — or perhaps worse, have been replaced with inaccurate information.”
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US environmental agency wipes climate change facts from website: reports
- The Environmental Protection Agency tweaked its pages to focus on the ‘natural processes’ driving climate change, like volcano eruptions and variation in solar activity
Ukraine faces military aid shortfall as Europe struggles to plug US gap
- The United States contributed, on average, €21.4 billion to the €41.6 billion annual mean for 2022-2024
- France, Germany and the United Kingdom increased their allocations substantially this year
PARIS: Military aid for Ukraine plummeted in the second half of 2025 as falling European contributions failed to make up for the halt in US support, data from the Kiel Institute showed Wednesday.
As US President Donald Trump wound down US contributions at the beginning of the year, Europe stepped up with record pledges of almost €20 billion ($23 billion) between March and June, more than offsetting the overall shortfall.
But Europe was only able to muster fewer than €8 billion between July and October, meaning Ukraine overall received the second-lowest amount for a four-month period since Russia’s 2022 invasion began.
The overall total for the first 10 months of 2025 stands at €32.5 billion, meaning an additional €9.1 billion would be needed by the end of the year to maintain the €41.6 billion annual average from 2022 to 2024.
Ukraine’s allies would need to send another €5.1 billion before the end of the year to avoid the current-record annual low of €37.6 billion, set in 2022.
“Based on the data available through October, Europe has not been able to sustain the momentum of the first half of 2025,” said Professor Christoph Trebesch, head of Kiel’s Ukraine Support Tracker.
“If this slower pace continues in the remaining months, 2025 will become the year with the lowest level of new aid allocations ever for Ukraine since the outbreak of the full-scale invasion in 2022,” he added.
The United States contributed, on average, €21.4 billion to the €41.6 billion annual mean for 2022-2024, highlighting the scale of the task for Europe and other allies in filling the gap.
France, Germany and the United Kingdom increased their allocations substantially this year.
But Europe’s leaders are looking for ways to fund a loan to Kyiv that, under current proposals, would be paid back by any eventual Russian reparations to Ukraine.
The EU on Wednesday laid out a plan to use frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine with €90 billion over the next two years.
Belgium, home to international deposit organization Euroclear — which holds most of the Russian assets — has so far rejected the plan because of the potential legal repercussions.
As US President Donald Trump wound down US contributions at the beginning of the year, Europe stepped up with record pledges of almost €20 billion ($23 billion) between March and June, more than offsetting the overall shortfall.
But Europe was only able to muster fewer than €8 billion between July and October, meaning Ukraine overall received the second-lowest amount for a four-month period since Russia’s 2022 invasion began.
The overall total for the first 10 months of 2025 stands at €32.5 billion, meaning an additional €9.1 billion would be needed by the end of the year to maintain the €41.6 billion annual average from 2022 to 2024.
Ukraine’s allies would need to send another €5.1 billion before the end of the year to avoid the current-record annual low of €37.6 billion, set in 2022.
“Based on the data available through October, Europe has not been able to sustain the momentum of the first half of 2025,” said Professor Christoph Trebesch, head of Kiel’s Ukraine Support Tracker.
“If this slower pace continues in the remaining months, 2025 will become the year with the lowest level of new aid allocations ever for Ukraine since the outbreak of the full-scale invasion in 2022,” he added.
The United States contributed, on average, €21.4 billion to the €41.6 billion annual mean for 2022-2024, highlighting the scale of the task for Europe and other allies in filling the gap.
France, Germany and the United Kingdom increased their allocations substantially this year.
But Europe’s leaders are looking for ways to fund a loan to Kyiv that, under current proposals, would be paid back by any eventual Russian reparations to Ukraine.
The EU on Wednesday laid out a plan to use frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine with €90 billion over the next two years.
Belgium, home to international deposit organization Euroclear — which holds most of the Russian assets — has so far rejected the plan because of the potential legal repercussions.
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