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The EPA Won't Be Shutting Down Its Open Data Website After All (mashable.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article: Scientists and data experts are closely tracking the websites of federal agencies, noting changes to pages dealing with climate change and energy since President Donald Trump took office. On Monday, they noticed an alarming message posted to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) open data website, indicating it would shut down on Friday, April 28. [...] By Monday afternoon, visitors to Open Data received a different pop-up notification, which clarifies that data on the site will still be available come Friday.
By Monday afternoon, visitors to Open Data received a different pop-up notification, which clarifies that data on the site will still be available come Friday.
On Saturday, though, you're SOL...
The linked article says that EPA employees, in anticipation of a government shutdown, put that notice up on their own volition. Trump had nothing to do with it. Sorry, but there's ample history to show that not every screw-up in DC is caused by Donald Trump.
Wait, the sky didn't fall? Well, just wait until next week! I'm positive the sky will fall then! Or the next week! Or the next!
The Trump administration doesn't lead. It simply blunders forward blindly attempting to fulfill the wishes of every well connected hack and fraud that manages to get the ear of the administration.
Only when they accidentally step on an issue that garners enough public outcry do they react. This is bad policy for obvious reasons, because some of the worst things this administration will do will not be noticed until it's too late.
No doubt climate skeptics are facepalming everywhere to hear the climate alarmists suddenly very concerned about public accessibility for data that affects public policy. This comes of course after arguing for years that the likes of Michael Mann and Phil Jones didn't need to release the data and algorithms behind their papers, but should drive public policy anyway, because science!
Download, backup in a free country, then verify on Saturday.
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Meanwhile the USDA still hasn't restored the thousands of records it illegally deleted during the transition.
The $150 billion was always Iran's money - money that the US had frozen.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Demonstrably false garbage. Your orange hero can't do anything right, so all you have is attacks on people who aren't in office anymore. Try criticizing the guy who is in office, for once.
Obama is old news. Republicans now control the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. If things aren't going the way you'd like them to, the blame lies with Republicans, not Obama.
That they can now use for fantastic programs, like hanging homosexuals from lampposts, stoning women who don't wear a hijab, and supporting terrorism across the globe!
Fuck off, apologist.
The US had no legal grounds to keep holding the money. Continuing to do so would just make it look riskier to do business in the US. A LOT of that money is coming back to the US via orders for Boeing airplanes. That's almost 100,000 well-paying jobs.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Didn't you get the memo? Forcing women to cover their bodies and violence against gays is now liberal. It's a mixed up world.
But if things do work out under Trump, it's all thanks to Obama.
From TFA:
Friday is the day the current federal stopgap funding bill expires. The EPA apparently worried that Congress wouldn't pass a new continuing resolution to fund the government, and preemptively planned to end the Open Data service, according to the contractor managing the site, 3 Round Stones in Arlington, Virginia.
This sort of infantile behavior is the stock play we see over and over again from governmental agencies that are in danger of not getting as much money as they would prefer.
Keeping the money is called stealing. I doubt that would ever change a country's policies for the better. If having a regime that does not meet our standards is just cause to lock up their money, then there are many many allies of the US to do this to. Stop acting like Iran is the only country doing this. We only do this to Iran because they are not as economically important to use as Saudi Arabia or Russia. Go back in time and the US was very friendly with very atrocious regimes, as long as they cliamed to be anti-communist we would hug them with open arms.
Gee I voted for Trump and I made a big mistake and I have to tell myself whatever story I need to to make this good in my head, so that I can live with my awful choices.
So gee, this has nothing to do with the way I voted, even though Trump's the one calling for EPA to be defunded, no he didn't, that's just a lie from erm, Twitter frauds, Fake news, CNN, BBC, MSNBC, all Fake Fake Fake, Russia Today is the only source that tells it true.... erm Clinton Clinton Clinton, lah lah lah lah, I'm not listening to myself.....
Yours, the few Trump supporters left.
Didn't you get the memo? Forcing women to cover their bodies and violence against gays is now liberal. It's a mixed up world.
Yeah, because Reagan was a Liberal. He certainly wouldn't have a chance in today's GOP. It really is a mixed up world.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.