MAINE MONITOR • September 26, 2025
The National Park Service recently removed numerous signs at Acadia National Park that detailed the mounting impacts of climate change on Maine’s coast and forests. The move is part of a sweeping campaign that the Trump administration says is aimed at “restoring truth and sanity to American history.” In practice, it has been an exercise in scrubbing historical and scientific truths from federal sites and institutions, including the horrors of slavery in the United States. Much like during President Donald Trump’s first term, the administration has worked to undermine established climate science while boosting the development of planet-warming fossil fuels.