A federal website hosting congressionally mandated climate reports has gone dark, eliminating one of the country’s most reliable sources of information about climate change.
The website went offline Monday afternoon, The New York Times first reported, and has not been reinstated. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NOTUS about why the website was taken down and if there was a timeline for its return.
The Global Change Research Act of 1990 mandates that the federal government publish a National Climate Assessment for the Environmental Protection Agency every four years, examining how changes in the weather and greenhouse-gas emissions affect a number of economic metrics, as well as human and environmental health.