The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive

(motherjones.com)

136 points | by robtherobber 2 hours ago

10 comments

  • mike_bob 9 minutes ago
    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.
  • baggachipz 1 hour ago
    Wouldn't want any of that pesky true climate-change-proving data available, now would we?
    • amelius 1 hour ago
      We have alternative facts now.
  • pstuart 0 minutes ago
    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.

  • dannyobrien 45 minutes ago
    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 14 minutes ago
    Has anyone scraped this already for offline use?
  • dyauspitr 48 minutes ago
    Everything bad is good for this administration.
  • toomuchtodo 1 hour ago
    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

    • icantevenhold 1 hour ago
      A “proper” mirror alongside archive.org would be good too
  • Madmallard 52 minutes ago
    Why are companies allowed to remove themselves from the web archive?

    They shouldn't be.

    • jacquesm 6 minutes ago
      They're not. Someone on HN said that they just mark it as unavailable but they still keep it, I don't know what the expiry is on that though, or if they could be forced to actually delete something 'for real'. Nor do I know how you'd verify that beyond doubt.
  • LW2026 1 hour ago
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  • icantevenhold 1 hour ago
    The adverb “quietly” has become such an AI smell to me, even if it’s probably not one in this instance.