Censorship will not stop us

The author contends that the Trump administration began censoring climate change information immediately upon taking office by removing climate references from the White House website, cancelling a Health and Climate summit, and freezing EPA grants for climate research and environmental justice. The text warns that erasing public data hampers the tracking of global temperatures and severe weather, facilitating climate denial strategies similar to those previously used by the American Petroleum Institute. The Center for International Environmental Law pledges to continue supporting the Paris Agreement and holding contributors to climate change accountable.

• Immediately following the inauguration on January 20, 2017, the White House energy webpage removed all mentions of climate change and instead pledged to dismantle "harmful and unnecessary environmental policies."
• The Trump administration took several steps to restrict climate-related activities, including the cancellation of a Health and Climate summit by the Center for Disease Control and an order for the US Environmental Protection Agency to freeze grants and contracts for pollution prevention, environmental justice, and climate research.
• The removal of decades of research from public websites is viewed as a threat that could obstruct the creation of data sets used to monitor global temperatures and severe weather patterns, thereby aiding climate denial.
• The author links current government actions to historical climate denial strategies used by the American Petroleum Institute in the 1990s, which involved casting doubt on science and discrediting institutions.

APA

Hamilton, L. A. (2017). Censorship will not stop us. Center for International Environmental Law. https://www.ciel.org/censorship-will-not-stop-us/

Chicago

Hamilton, Lisa Anne. Censorship will not stop us. Center for International Environmental Law, 2017. https://www.ciel.org/censorship-will-not-stop-us/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{hamilton2017censorship, author = {Hamilton, Lisa Anne}, title = {{Censorship will not stop us}}, publisher = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2017}, month = feb, url = {https://www.ciel.org/censorship-will-not-stop-us/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }