As Donald Trump marked 100th day in office on Saturday, thousands of people from all over the U.S. marched in favour of protecting the environment while slamming the effects the President's policies on climate.
The pages deleted from the site include information on the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, the Washington Post reported, including fact sheets about greenhouse gas emissions.
Carrying signs emblazoned with slogans such as "Imagine a world free of climate change", and "Planet over profits", demonstrators on Saturday (local time) said they were angered by the prospect of Mr Trump carrying through on his vow to roll back protections put in place by his predecessors.
People march from the U.S. Capitol to the White House for the People's Climate Movement to protest President Donald Trump's enviromental policies April 29, 2017 in Washington, DC.
In Washington, D.C., large crowds on Saturday were making their way down Pennsylvania Avenue, where they planned to encircle the White House.
The Trump administration has called for budget cuts of almost one-third at the EPA and has sought to weaken protections for human health. He doesn't realize climate change impacts everyone.
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Pruitt made waves in March when he said he is not convinced that carbon dioxide from human activity is the main driver of climate change. In fact, Trump has tweeted more than 50 times, Mic reported in March, that climate change must be a "Chinese hoax" or remarking on the cold NY winters and wishing for a "big fat dose" of global warming.
The White House has pushed back at the claims made by many environmental groups and says numerous statements regarding climate change and human civilization's effect on the environment are unfounded or exaggerated.
For Kem Morawski, a retiree living in Maryland, the objective of the march was to show "Congress that there's a lot of people out here - their constituents - that are concerned about climate change".
Trump administration lawyers plan to meet on Monday to discuss the legal implications of remaining in the Paris climate change agreement, officials told Politico news.
Dean said the last climate march was in September 2014. He said the issue of saving the climate shouldn't be a partisan one.
"The clear communication by the EPA notifying of the impending website overhaul is good transparency practice, but it remains to be seen how information and information access will change as the EPA site is updated", said Toly Rinberg, a member of the group's website tracking committee.
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