The new climate data leaders

As White House cuts environmental research, data will simply migrate to universities, other governments.

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Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would stop updating a popular database that companies and investors use to measure greenhouse gas emissions in a variety of manufacturing processes.

The valuable information, the third most popular data set among almost 300,000 available from the U.S. government, according to the New York Times was suspended after the EPA dismissed the data’s creator and dozens of other staff who had signed a letter opposing White House interference in scientific research.

But as much as the White House attempts to rewrite science and alter facts and history, data doesn’t really die.