Schatz Fights Trump-Backed NOAA Staffing Cuts | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
TEXAS, USA, JUL 15 – Deadly Texas floods killed 132 people, raising concerns about NOAA's proposed $387 million budget cut and staffing reductions that may affect future weather forecasts, experts warn.
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'ProPublica' climate reporter calls Texas floods an 'early warning' of future chaos
Abrahm Lustgarten says the undermining of science, and cuts to FEMA and NOAA, at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common, should be "extraordinarily concerning" to us.
House bill proposes smaller cuts to NOAA’s Boulder labs, but still ‘drastic’
On Monday, July 14, the House appropriations committee released a draft bill that includes a 6% cut to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), markedly less than the 25% reduction proposed by President Trump, but still a $380 million cut that advocates say will jeopardize key programs. Trump’s proposed budget sought to eliminate NOAA’s entire research arm, the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), which funds all…
Schatz fights Trump-backed NOAA staffing cuts | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
WASHINGTON >> Members of Congress are expressing renewed support for the nation’s weather forecasting system after deadly flooding in Texas and elsewhere put the focus on cuts within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.


Cuts to NOAA will almost certainly result in future deaths, forecaster says
Federal budget cuts targeting NOAA threaten to dismantle the National Severe Storms Laboratory, and one scientist says it means people are more likely to die.
Trump's proposed NOAA cuts meet Senate appropriators' opposition
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are expressing renewed support for the nation’s weather forecasting system after deadly flooding in Texas and elsewhere put the focus on cuts within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ...
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