The Trump administration has scrubbed government websites of congressionally mandated reports on the climate, making it harder for state and local governments to plan for heat waves, forest fires, floods and rising seas. Federal law requires the executive branch to publish the U.S. National Climate Assessment every four years, along with a yearly update for Congress, yet last week websites hosting the assessment went dark. Climate scientists have condemned the Trump administration’s censorship. University of Illinois professor Donald Wuebbles, who worked on all five previous National Climate Assessments, told Inside Climate News, “Climate change is one of the most serious issues humanity has ever faced, and for us to not take that seriously, as this administration is doing, it’s criminal.”