U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said this week that the Trump administration plans to review and potentially alter the nation’s climate science reports. In a Tuesday appearance on CNN’s “The Source,” Wright told CNN host Kaitlan Collins the National Climate Assessments have been removed from government websites “because we’re reviewing them.” … The National Climate Assessments are mandated by Congress and have been released five times since 2000. The federal reports, prepared by hundreds of volunteer scientists, are subject to extensive peer review and detail how climate change is affecting each region of the United States so far and provide the latest scientific forecasts. Wright accused the previous reports of being politically biased, stating that they “are not fair assessments of the data.”

Other climate data news:

• Politico: Here’s where the Trump team is scrubbing climate data
• CNN: Scientists launch coordinated response to Trump’s attempt to wipe credible climate research off the record
• The Hill: Energy secretary says ‘we’re reviewing’ past government climate reports
• The Guardian (London, U.K.): Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’
• Capital Press (Salem, Ore.): Federal report sees climate change benefiting U.S. agriculture