A review of rescued climate data
The Trump administration has shut down websites like climate.gov and other climate data projects. Academics, journalists, and nonprofit organizations are working to rebuild what has been lost.
SueEllen Campbell | Yale Climate Connections | August 12, 2026
The Trump administration has shut down innumerable climate programs, including public-facing sources of information. All is not lost, though, partly because of significant efforts to retrieve that information and partly because other nonprofit sources of user-friendly data have continued without interference…
… For a comprehensive list of all the climate-related projects that Trump’s administration has killed, see this site created by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia Law School. On offer here are three primary tracking tools: the Climate Backtracker, the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker (co-maintained with the Environmental Defense Fund), and the Silencing Science Tracker (co-maintained with the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund). The Sabin Center also offers a global litigation database, an attribution database, and other resources.