The Center for Biological Diversity, the Center for Media and Democracy and scientist Stuart Pimm have launched what they called a “novel legal strategy” to challenge the moves.
They say that under a provision of the Freedom of Information Act added in 2016, federal agencies must publicly post records when they are requested three or more times. So they each filed similar requests for climate change information from EPA as well as multiple agencies within the Interior Department.
“Scrubbing information about climate change will not make it any less dangerous,” said Amy Atwood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, in a statement last week. “We’re going to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to bury the science showing the dangerous impacts of climate change at every turn.”