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NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire NOAA

NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Update, April 16, 2025: Janitorial services at Montlake Laboratory were restored on Monday. Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms…
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April 11, 2025
Scientific research is the lifeblood of our economy. Now, a wrecking ball has come. NOAA

Scientific research is the lifeblood of our economy. Now, a wrecking ball has come.

The first 10 weeks of the Trump administration have sent shock waves through the science community. Many expected the second Trump administration to follow the pattern of the first. But I certainly didn't expect a broad-scale assault on the U.S. science enterprise itself. Elon Musk emerged as Trump's leader of…
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April 9, 2025
US Lawmakers Host ‘Issues Forum’ On Trump Administration’s Efforts To Gut NOAA NOAA

US Lawmakers Host ‘Issues Forum’ On Trump Administration’s Efforts To Gut NOAA

US congressional Democrats held an “issues forum” this week to discuss the efforts by the by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Among the lawmakers in attendance were House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman, Vice Ranking Member Sarah Elfreth,…
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April 3, 2025
Listen to Weather Satellites—or the Universe—With the Versatile Discovery Dish NOAA

Listen to Weather Satellites—or the Universe—With the Versatile Discovery Dish

The U.S. government recommends that everyone have a disaster kit that includes a weather radio. These radios tune to a nationwide network run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Federal Communications Commission that provides alerts about hazardous weather and other major emergencies. Such broadcasts can be…
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March 28, 2025
Trump adviser Waltz claims ‘full responsibility’ for adding journalist to Signal group but can’t explain how it happened – as it happened NOAA

Trump adviser Waltz claims ‘full responsibility’ for adding journalist to Signal group but can’t explain how it happened – as it happened

Waltz claims 'full responsibility' for adding journalist to Signal group but can't explain how it happened In an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox, Mike Waltz, the national security adviser, insisted that he does not know and has never texted with Jeffrey Goldberg, the well-connected Atlantic editor who was added…
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March 26, 2025