EPA Website Restores Climate Change Data

Data missing from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website is back and updated after a four-year absence under the Trump administration.

The EPA's new Climate Change Indicators website shows that the last decade was the hottest on record; heat waves have increased in frequency from two per year in the 1960s to six per year in the 2010s; and sea levels rose as much as 8 inches in coastal areas. "With this long overdue update, we now have additional data and a new set of indicators that show climate change has become even more evident, stronger, and extreme — as has the imperative that we take meaningful action," EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement. The site pulls together data from 13 federal agencies, plus academics and other organizations, on everything from greenhouse gas emissions to winter ranges of birds.