Brian Lear on WNYC, 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 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

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

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