tl;dr: The EPA has quietly announced it will decommission its online web archive on December 31, 2026, eliminating public access to tens of thousands of environmental documents dating back to the 1990s. The archive, which costs roughly $2 million annually to maintain, has been a critical resource for researchers, policymakers, and the public — particularly for tracking deleted climate pages from Trump's first term and documenting cases like Camp Lejeune contamination. A prior Biden-era attempt to shut it down in 2022 was reversed after public backlash, but the agency now points users to limited "snapshot collections" as a replacement.