The Sierra Club and three other environmental groups are suing the Trump administration for removing these online tools, arguing they are vital for protecting communities from environmental risks. (Credit: freshidea/Adobe Stock)
(Bloomberg) — The White House effort to scrub government websites of environmental data has researchers and activists trying to recreate several lost mapping tools to protect communities vulnerable to pollution and climate change.
One of them pinpointed existing air and water pollutant risks nationwide, for example. Another mapped low-income areas facing high energy costs, while a third showed the location and costs of future climate threats. Government officials, academics and activists used that data for everything from studying environmental harms at the local level to funneling money to help those communities protect themselves against those threats.
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