The Twitter account of Badlands National Park in South Dakota shared a series of tweets this afternoon about the dangers of climate change that appeared to conflict with the environmental policy of the new Trump administration.
Badlands National Park defied Trump with climate-change tweets. They’re gone now.
Earlier today, Trump signed an executive order to restart construction on the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline oil project.
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Within hours, the tweets were taken down.
Trump, who has used Twitter in the past to discredit climate change science, signed an executive order earlier today that advanced the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, undoing President Obama’s efforts to block construction of both oil projects.
The tweets from the Badlands came just days after the Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to “cease use of government Twitter accounts until further notice,” according to a report from Gizmodo.
The order was issued after the main National Park Service Twitter account retweeted two tweets that displeased the new administration: One on the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration and another noting major changes to the White House website.
The next day the Park Service issued an apology, said it was a mistake, and appeared to regain its Twitter privileges.
But today’s tweetstorm from Badlands feels less apologetic. The Badlands Twitter account had only 7,000 followers yesterday, but it jumped to 60,000 today, according to a Twitter spokesperson.
Here’s how Trump has used Twitter to weigh in on climate change before he was president.
Tuesday wasn’t the first time the Badlands Twitter account has shared information about climate change on the social media platform.
A brief history of inaction on climate change
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
