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FEMA and NOAA officials are being forced to skip major hurricane and flood conferences ahead of disaster season because of Trump administration restrictions on travel for federal employees By Thomas Frank & E&E News An aerial view shows floodwaters surrounding a rural home on April 06, 2025 near Poplar Bluff,…

Lockheed Martin render of NOAA's next-generation Geostationary Extended Observations weather satellite constellation. DENVER — The White House’s budget proposal for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would seek to make major changes in a weather satellite program as well as transfer space weather and space traffic management efforts. NOAA received…

A widely reported draft budget proposal is calling for major funding cuts to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and US lawmakers and environmental groups aren’t happy. The draft proposal would cut NOAA’s budget by over 25%, with the worst parts affected being the agency’s fisheries enforcement and research…

Environment Proposed cuts would wipe out NOAA’s Ocean and Atmospheric Research office among a raft of other reductions to one of the main scientific agencies of the US By James Dinneen Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email Protestors gathered in March outside the headquarters of the…

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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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…

Agency officials said Monday that NOAA would continue to maintain the Joint Polar Satellite System, crucial weather satellites, after a previous memo suggested maintenance would be deferred By Scott Waldman & E&E News Artist's rendering of NOAA's JPSS-2. NOAA CLIMATEWIRE | NOAA has backed off a plan that would have…

CLIMATEWIRE | NOAA has begun to limit the work it devotes to maintaining a pair of polar weather satellites — putting at risk the accuracy of both weather forecasts and extreme storm predictions, say former agency officials. The move, outlined in a memo obtained exclusively by POLITICO’s E&E News, calls…

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,…