FEMA’s website started deleting ‘climate change’ 

FEMA started removing mentions of climate change on its website after Donald Trump stepped into office.FEMA started removing mentions of climate change on its website after Donald Trump stepped into office.Feb 7, 2025, 9:00 PM UTCThe Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters building on January 29, 2025, in Washington, DC. Photo: Getty ImagesThe term “climate change” has started to vanish from Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) website. Its former “climate resilience” website has been rebranded under the title “future conditions.” There are still subtle references to climate change there, but it’s more of a whisper than an urgent warning as it was before.The edits come as the Trump administration takes a wrecking ball to federal agencies, attempting to slash the government workforce and eliminate initiatives Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk deem unnecessary. Their anti-diversity crusade has already targeted websites and scientific research mentioning words including “women,” “minority,” and more.Despite mountains of evidence showing that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are exacerbating extreme weather disasters, President Donald Trump has repeatedly called climate change “a hoax” and campaigned on plans to “drill, baby, drill.” So, naturally, information about climate change is in the crosshairs as the Trump administration enacts a broader purge of health and environmental information it doesn’t want conflicting with his pro-fossil fuel message.The webpage formerly titled “climate resilience” used to say at the top:“Climate change is the defining crisis of our time. From extreme heat, drought and wildfires to more severe coastal storms, sea-level rise and inland flooding, the consequences of climate change are all around us.”Reading the current webpage in comparison is like playing one of those games where you have to guess what changed in a picture. (Hint: there’s a double-space typo where the words “climate change” used to be.) The paragraph now says:“Disaster incidents are rising due to increased human vulnerability, exposure and a changing climate. From extreme heat, drought and wildfires to more severe coastal storms, sea-level rise and inland flooding, the consequences are all around us.” There are several mentions of climate that have been removed from the page, according to an analysis by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI). The group of researchers came together after Trump was first elected in 2016 to document what might happen to public environmental data. The group found a nearly 40 percent drop in the use of the term “climate change” across websites for federal environmental agencies during the first Trump administration.An image compares the FEMA webpage before and after Donald Trump’s inauguration.Image: EDGIAs the agency that coordinates federal responses to all kinds of disasters from hurricanes to wildfires, FEMA