March 23, 2025

Mr Crank;

I see that the Republican Administration has begun to close off public access to data that has been collected with public monies by public agencies. These include NOAA, CDC, and EPA.

These data have been used to establish historical trends and to project future trends, both by federal agencies and by interested members of the general public. All of this helps to promote the general welfare, as mandated by the founding fathers.

Even worse is the idea that these data are no longer going to be collected, thereby corrupting decades of public good, because some in the Republican Administration don’t want the data to tear down their belief system.

Please work to ensure that the data collected by our public agencies remains available to the public for future analysis and interpretation.

Jack Heneghan