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Brian Lear on WNYC Studios. And one of the things we're doing on this show during Trump's first

hundred 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. We talked about the latest RFK and vaccines

and measles news in the health section in part one. 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.

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