The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive

 (motherjones.com)

131 points | by robtherobber 2 hours ago

9 comments

  • mike_bob 5 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?
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    • amelius 59 minutes ago
      We have alternative facts now.
  • dannyobrien 42 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 10 minutes ago
    Has anyone scraped this already for offline use?
  • dyauspitr 44 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

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    • icantevenhold 58 minutes ago
      A “proper” mirror alongside archive.org would be good too
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  • Madmallard 48 minutes ago
    Why are companies allowed to remove themselves from the web archive?

    They shouldn't be.

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    • jacquesm 2 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 59 minutes ago
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  • icantevenhold 59 minutes ago
    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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