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This information (which was made public in a series of articles in the mainstream U.S. media in early April 2025) seems significant:

A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday, March 30, 2025 that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”
Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.
“When evaluating agreements, those entries that include these terms or similar terms cannot be submitted,” wrote Sharon Strickland, the USDA’s Northeast area financial management, travel and agreements section head, in an internal March 20 email. The review will “ensure that we maintain compliance with the Administration’s EOS.”

Source: https://newrepublic.com/post/193395/agriculture-department-ban-words-safe-drinking-water

98.123.38.211 (talk) 17:51, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]