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The agency says the Trump administration did not request the language change, and that they don't plan to change how they operate, "just how we talk about it," an NRCS official told CNN. Another NRCS official noted that information on climate change remains on the NRCS website, but said that the changes in language reflect that the Trump administration does not view climate change as a priority. Head of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt has been famously critical of climate change, and Trump nominee Sam Clovis, who would fill a top post at USDA, has described climate change as "junk science" and "not proven," CNN reports.
A shift in the overall official (or unofficial) viewpoint on climate change could have repercussions for rural issues such as economic disparity, fishing, water supply, coal mining, power plant emissions, farming, tourism and more.
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