From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, March 11th.

One of the things we're doing on this show during Trump's first 100 days at least is a health and climate Tuesday section of the

show. This builds on and expands the climate story of the week that we had been doing on Tuesdays

the last two years. Again, our thinking right now is that there are so many headlines coming from

the new administration that are pretty monumental on a daily basis that health and climate ones risk getting lost in

the shuffle. Now on climate, the new energy secretary, Chris Wright, just yesterday, shrugged off

climate change as a side effect of building the modern world and said the cure is worse than the

disease. This as the Trump administration cuts back on permits and investment

in renewable energy and other things. And here's what we'll focus on now. They're wiping climate

data from public view. They're wiping climate data from public view. For example, organic farmers

depend on government resources for climate data,

technical assistance, and some funding, but under the Trump administration, much of that

information has now disappeared from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's website. The administration

has now purged critical information from the USDA site,

related to climate change as well as sustainable farming practices and extreme weather resilience,

among other topics. Now one of New York's largest organic farming, farming organizations,

is fighting back, suing the USDA to restore this information

and hold the agency accountable.

Journalist Emily Atkin, founder and editor-in-chief of the climate newsletter, Heated,

has been following this story closely.

In her newsletter last week, she writes about the lawsuit and exposes

what seems like a deeper contradiction at play. She wrote that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s

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