Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back.

The Agriculture Department will restore information on climate change that was eliminated from its website when President Trump Tok’s office, in accordance with the judicial documents presented on Monday in a demand on elimination.

The eliminated data included pages on federal funds and loans, forest conservation and rural clean energy projects. It also included sections of the Sites of the Forest Service Conservation Service of the United States and Naturals, and the “climate risk viewfinder” of the United States forest service, which included detailed maps that show how climate change could affect national forests and grasand.

The demand, presented in February, said that the purge denied the information of the farmers to make decisions sensitive to time while facing commercial risks linked to climate change, such as heat waves, droughts, floods and forest fires.

The lawsuit was filed by the Northast Organic Agriculture Association of New York together with two environmental organizations, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Work Group.

The plaintiffs had requested a court order that required the department to restore the eliminated pages. On Monday, the government said it would be mandatory.

Jay Clayton, the United States prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, wrote to Judge Margaret M. Garnett that he was representing the Department of Agriculture in the lawsuit, and that the department had already described in the lawsuit in the lawsuit. He said the department “expects to substantially complete the restoration process in approximately two weeks.”

Mr. Clayton asked the judge to postpone a hearing scheduled for May 21. He said the department proposes to submit a report on its progress by restoring the data after three weeks, and tried to address “appropriate the next steps in this litigation.”

Jeffrey Stein, an associated lawyer in Earthjustice, a non -profit organization of the environmental law that represented the plaintiffs, together with the Institute of the first amendment of the Knight of the University of Columbia, “we are slippery that the information related to the climate change of governments with the government is harming the farmers and communities throughout the country.”