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The EPA Won't Be Shutting Down Its Open Data Website After All (mashable.com)

Posted by msmash on from the let-there-be-light dept.

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.

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  1. Total Non-Story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. The sky didn't fall? by mveloso · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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!

  3. Profound lack of leadership by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  4. Re:After Friday? by mrchaotica · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep. We'd better scrape and mirror it anyway, just in case.

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  5. Re:Give it to the Iranians to run! O gave 'em nuke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  6. Firemen first by SlaveToTheGrind · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Firemen first by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 1, Insightful

      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.

      In response to the infantile behaviour of the Republicans who shut down government in 2013 because they didn't et what they wanted, with nobody getting any money. The same Republicans who still can't get what they really, really want: to repeal Obamacare. Preparing for the hissy fits of childish Republicans is not childish.

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