J.P. Freire, the EPA's associate administrator for public affairs said in a statement that the change was made to "reflect the agency's new direction under Donald Trump and Administrator Scott Pruitt". A Gallup poll this month showed 59 percent of Americans agreed environmental protection should take priority over increased US energy production.
The People's Climate Solidarity March started outside the U.S. Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, ambled across the Stone Arch Bridge and ended at Father Hennepin Bluff Park. "2018", read one sign carried by Kathy Sommer of Stony Brook, N.Y., as the protest assembled on the Mall on Saturday morning.
During his campaign to become president, Trump called climate change a hoax.
Thousands of people across the USA have marched in rain, snow and sweltering heat to demand action on climate change mass protests that coincided with president Donald Trump's 100th day in office and took aim at his agenda for rolling back environmental protections. Protesters sounded numerous same themes at both events.
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Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-80th District) gave a speech at the rally, telling a crowd of marchers that California is a state that will continue to fight for progressive polices, especially when it comes to climate change.
About one and a half hours later, when the march fully surrounded the White House, some of the protestors sat down for 100 seconds to symbolize the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Trump has also proposed deep cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Hundreds more gathered in Houston, where Mayor Sylvester Turner told participants that climate change is "very much real".
Organizers say about 150,000 people took part in Saturday's march in Washington.
Demonstrators sit on the ground along Pennsylvania Ave.in front of the White House in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2017, during a demonstration and march.
In the press statement, the EPA said that "language associated with the Clean Power Plan, written by the last administration, is out-of-date".
The Washington event, which coincided with Trump's 100-day milestone, follows an exclusive interview with Reuters in which the president reflected wistfully at his life as a billionaire real estate developer that he left behind after his January 20 inauguration.
The article, which suggests scientists' certainty about climate change is what turns Americans away from talking about it, faced immediate criticism from many, including others at the New York Times itself.
On Friday, The Environmental Protection Agency's website wiped most of the information pertaining to climate change and replaced it with a simple message reading, "this page is being updated".
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