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The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive

164 points • by robtherobber • today at 7:05 PM • 27 comments • view on HN

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mike_bob • today 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 • today 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 • today 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 • today at 8:55 PM

Has anyone scraped this already for offline use?

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pstuart • today 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 • today at 9:33 PM

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

amclennon • today at 9:32 PM

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

toomuchtodo • today 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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dyauspitr • today at 8:21 PM

Everything bad is good for this administration.

vfclists • today at 9:22 PM

Where are r/archiveteam when you need them?

Madmallard • today at 8:17 PM

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

They shouldn't be.

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LW2026 • today at 8:06 PM

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icantevenhold • today 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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