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The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive

281 points • by robtherobber • yesterday at 7:05 PM • 51 comments • view on HN

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mike_bob • yesterday at 9:00 PM

Take note Republicans (which I'm doubting many even care anymore), your party thinks short term profits for a few are more important than science and the environment for all.

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baggachipz • yesterday at 7:59 PM

Wouldn't want any of that pesky true climate-change-proving data available, now would we?

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dannyobrien • yesterday at 8:23 PM

I'm presuming this is all preserved in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Term_Web_Archive (though making that more easily available would be great -- another project for https://wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/ )

arjie • yesterday at 8:55 PM

Has anyone scraped this already for offline use?

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toomuchtodo • yesterday at 7:21 PM

https://web.archive.org/*/https://archive.epa.gov/

Related:

The EPA plans to sunset its online archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30795719 - March 2022

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totetsu • today at 2:31 AM

Next thing the moon landing hoax will become part of Americas curriculum ala Interstellar

vfclists • yesterday at 9:22 PM

Where are r/archiveteam when you need them?

dyauspitr • yesterday at 8:21 PM

Everything bad is good for this administration.

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Madmallard • yesterday at 8:17 PM

Why are companies allowed to remove themselves from the web archive?

They shouldn't be.

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amclennon • yesterday at 9:32 PM

I hate to say this because it's so overused, but this move is certainly veering into 1984 territory

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pstuart • yesterday at 9:09 PM

If they weren't afraid of the data being public they wouldn't be removing it.

The only saving grace of this administration is that their incompetence helps to slow down their evilness.

rtuin • yesterday at 9:33 PM

Wiping and rewriting history is straight from 1984 (novel). It's insane US let this happen.

LW2026 • yesterday at 8:06 PM

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icantevenhold • yesterday at 8:06 PM

The adverb “quietly” has become such an AI smell to me, even if it’s probably not one in this instance.

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