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• Following a lawsuit, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will restore climate-related information on its websites.
• Agriculture and environmental groups filed the lawsuit, stating that farmers rely on these critical resources to adapt to warming temperatures.
• In January, the USDA’s communications office instructed employees to archive or unpublish any landing pages focused on climate change.
• The lawsuit was filed by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Environmental Working Group.
• The USDA filed a letter to a U.S. district judge in the Southern District of New York stating that it would restore the removed climate change-related web content.
• The agency also said it would comply with federal laws regarding future publication decisions involving the scrubbed climate information.
• NOFA-NY called the USDA’s decision “a big win” for its members.
• The Trump administration’s actions since January have caused setbacks for U.S. growers, including pausing federal grant and loan programs and freezing funding for rural clean energy programs.
• The USDA has restored pages about the Inflation Reduction Act and rural clean energy programs, but other pages remain offline.
• One helpful tool that was removed was a page about loans for “climate-smart agriculture” on the Farmers Service Agency website.
• The USDA said that most of the content should be back online within two weeks.