The Trump Administration Eliminates Entire Staff Managing Climate Website

Beginning in February 2025, the Trump administration fired the entire staff operating the popular climate.gov website. The website stopped publishing new content on July 1, 2025, and, as of July 2026, redirects visitors to the main website for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The website notes: "In compliance with Executive Order 14303 (“Restoring Gold Standard Science”), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s June 23, 2025 Memorandum (“Agency Guidance for Implementing Gold Standard Science in the Conduct & Management of Scientific Activities”), 15 USC § 2904 (“National Climate Program”), 15 USC § 2934 (“National Global Change Research Plan”), and 33 USC § 893a (“NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Science Education Programs”), you have been redirected to NOAA.gov. Future research products previously housed under Climate.gov will be available at NOAA.gov/climate and its affiliate websites."