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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.
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.
Download, backup in a free country, then verify on Saturday.
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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.
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.
the data has always been public
That's laughably wrong. See, e.g., here.
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.