Trump administration can remove history and climate info from US parks, court says

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The Trump administration does not have to reinstate materials related to climate change, immigration and slavery that it has removed from national parks, a US appeals court ruled on Thursday. It’s the latest twist in a legal battle over how history is remembered at American public monuments. At the behest of Donald Trump, the federal government has over the last year dismantled plaques and signage deemed to be “ideological indoctrination”, a move the president characterized as the restoration of “truth and sanity to American history” in a 2025 executive order. In May 2025, the US secretary of the interior, Doug Burgum, instructed the National Park Service (NPS) to flag for…