Climate.gov staff relaunch site after Trump killed it

It's been exactly a year since the Trump administration axed the "climate.gov" domain, the former federal hub for climate change information which now redirects Americans to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate page.

But former members of the Climate.gov team and NOAA scientists — many of whom were fired by federal leaders in the wake of President Donald Trump's “Restoring Gold Standard Science” executive order — have brought it back to life.

Announced today, Climate.us is an entirely independent, volunteer-run, nonprofit website dedicated to reestablishing up-to-date and trusted climate science to the public. It houses 15 years of climate news, blogs, reports, classroom materials, and other data, including the Fifth National Climate Assessment — materials all formerly accessible on Climate.gov.

The initiative is run by more than 80 volunteer scientists and was partially funded by a grassroots donation campaign that raised $250,000 from 2,500 donors.

"Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change," said Climate.gov's former program manager Rebecca Lindsey. Lindsey is now the managing director of Climate.us. Last year, Lindsey told NPR that the current presidential administration was shuttering the website to curb discussion of climate change as part of its denialist agenda.

The Trump administration's attack on environmental regulation hasn't slowed. Last week, the Justice Department issued a letter pressuring a Mississippi court to drop a case against xAI that alleges the company's data centers are violating the Clean Air Act and polluting Black neighborhoods. The notice argued the case (and others like it) constitutes a national security threat because it could impede the Department of War’s AI-powered operations.