Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports

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Energy Sec. Chris Wright said Tuesday night the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites .

“We’re reviewing them, and we will come out with updated reports on those and with comments on those reports,” Wright told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview on “The Source.”

Wright dismissed the past reports, saying “they weren’t fair in broad-based assessments of climate change.”

“When you get into departments and look at stuff that’s there and you find stuff that’s objectionable, you want to fix it,” he said.

Energy spokesperson Andrea Woods said, “The National