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A Collapse (Again) of Scientific/Environmental/Health & Education Endeavors under a Trump Presidency
- The current U.S. administration has taken an array of actions with far-reaching consequences for education, science research, atmospheric/earth science, life sciences, health programs, environmental protection.... and on and on.
- History records a government backing away from U.S. leadership in essential national security, funding/programs/leadership ...
March 2026
Another Cut, a Disastrous Setback to Science in the US
Trump Administration’s plans to “dismantle” the NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
“Eliminating NCAR would cause irreparable harm.”
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February 2026
Deep Losses in Clean-Renewable Production & Competitiveness
- US Policy Goes Retro with Fossil Fuels
More on Going Retro
Who Is Russell Vought?
* https://www.propublica.org/article/video-who-is-russell-vought-trump-omb-shutdown
* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Who_Is_Russell_Vought.png
January 2026
As the Trump administration attempts to dismantle and eliminate the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
A generational setback across a national collaboration of science, universities, business, and world changing progress
From its founding, NCAR embraced the idea that understanding the Earth system — its atmosphere, oceans, land, and ice — requires collaboration across institutions, disciplines, and generations, not isolated efforts working in parallel.
Dive deeper into the damage of Trump anti-science policies ...
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At GreenPolicy360, we set a high value on protecting life and quality of life on Earth...
In politics the way the world is often focused on making choices, what are our priorities...
Here we see the way the current US president's administration chooses its priorities and its policies...
A government agency, the EPA, that we witnessed being established back in the day is now being 'kneecapped' in its mission...
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The United States Continues to Step Away
The Trump administration says it’s going to depart 66 international organizations, nearly half them affiliated with the United Nations
Here are the latest round of global organizations the Trump administration is leaving --
Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty and dozens of other groups
December 2025
NYT
Russell T. Vought is "a right-wing absolute zealot"
-- Susie Wiles, Chief of Staff for President Donald J. Trump
December 16, 2025
Russell Vought, the former vice president of the Heritage Foundation’s lobbying arm and current director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, gave USA Today the scoop on Tuesday (Dec. 16) and posted his plan and [ir]rationale on X as well, claiming that “this facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country” -- Andy Revkin, https://revkin.substack.com/p/trumps-demolition-derby-continues
This is not a center for alarmism. The science that comes from @NCAR_Science has made the United States a leader in tracking severe weather, modeling extreme floods and even the effects of increased solar activity and how it impacts our atmosphere here on Earth. Research that comes from here benefits us all from a safety and infrastructure standpoint. And, economically, the science helps mitigate a growing number of #billiondollar #weatherdisasters -- Al Roker
Wider anti-science efforts
This action is similar to the admnistration’s assault on NASA’s climate research (including ending the lease for the legendary Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan). There is a wider assault on missions, budgets and resources at other agencies where work involves climate or renewable energy. Just a short drive from NCAR, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on December 1 underwent a name and mission change. The Department of Energy dropped the word renewable from the name and mission of the lab. It’s now called the National Lab of the Rockies.
The climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe posted a comment on LinkedIn that is worth sharing:
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is quite literally our global mothership. Nearly everyone who conducts research in climate, atmospheric science, and weather -- not only in the US but around the world -- has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
NCAR supports the scientists who fly into hurricanes, the meteorologists who develop new radar technology, the physicists who envision and code new weather models, and yes - the largest community climate model in the world. That too.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
And that understanding was already under strain: the funding freeze on the national network of Climate Adaptation Science Centers in September, the discontinuation of key NASA satellite data records, the removal of EPA climate indicators last week, and a thousand other actions—large and small—all aimed at suppressing our ability to study how humans are affecting our shared home, how we can protect ourselves, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, and most of all how build a better future together.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis posted a reaction to initial reports on Tuesday. Here’s an excerpt:
Climate change is real, but the work of NCAR goes far beyond climate science. NCAR delivers data around severe weather events like fires and floods that help our country save lives and property, and prevent devastation for families. If these cuts move forward we will lose our competitive advantage against foreign powers and adversaries in the pursuit of scientific discovery.
More:
Russell Vought is not an elected official. He is best known for his contributions to Project 2025, a plan for gutting the U.S. government and installing a theocratic dictatorship. Project 2025 was so unpopular when it came to light last summer—only 4% of voters who knew about it wanted to see it enacted—that Trump insisted he had nothing to do with it.
-- Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American, October 3, 2025
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Nominated Administrator of US NASA Promises Senate Committee that He Will Not Eviscerate NASA Science Programs
- The Trump administration 2026 NASA budget calling for cuts of ~50% is rejected
Jared Isaacman: “Anything suggesting that I am anti-science or want to outsource that responsibility is simply untrue.”
-- The White House seeks to eliminate most federal spending on climate and ecological research and proposes cutting NASA’s science budget by more than half.
At GreenPolicy360, read more on NASA, its mission statement, its programs to study Planet Earth and pioneer Atmospheric Science, Earth Science, Earth System Science...
- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science
- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Thin_Blue_Layer
- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Earth_Perspective
- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Politics_with_GreenPolicy360
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science_from_Space
- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/NASA_EarthSciences,_Challenges_Public_to_Join_In
- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Observation_System_Data_and_Information_System_-_NASA_EOS
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The US Department of Energy Chooses Five Climate Change Debunkers to Write a Debunking Report in Secret
- Now the DOE Says 'Nevermind'
September 10, 2025
From Roger Pielke, Jr.
The Department of Energy’s Climate Working Group (CWG) was disbanded on September 3 and its work under DOE will not continue in any manner. Presumably its work product(s) and submitted public comments will all be withdrawn. This will be formally announced shortly.
Based on my connecting the dots, the disbanding is the direct result of a lawsuit filed by the Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists arguing that the empanelment of the CWG violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).
Update: DOE has filed a response to the lawsuit arguing that they don’t believe that there is a FACA violation but even if there was, it is all moot as the CWG is disbanded. DOE also objected to the request that the report be taken down (it remains up). For their part, UCS/EDF have requested that the court rule that EPA not be allowed to rely on the report or the CWG members as individuals unless DOE goes through the FACA process.
From Andy Revkin
Tuesday night (September 9), Politico Pro’s Zack Coleman broke the news that the Trump administration on September 3 officially dissolved the Department of Energy’s “Climate Working Group.” This is the five-scientist team Secretary of Energy Chris Wright hand picked to undertake what his department called a “critical assessment of the conventional narrative on climate change” and to support Trump’s effort to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that CO2 endangers public health and welfare and deserves regulation.
GreenPolicy360 Responds: DOE Chief Chris Wright is doing the bidding of President Trump whose claims that climate change is a "hoax" is not worth much in the scientific world of facts, evidence, reasoning, and protecting and acting to sustain a healthy, living environment.
The attacks by the president on clean renewable energy will go down as his, and Chris Wright's legacy.
The risks are real, the data is there to see.
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Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites
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Visit the AGU / EOS U.S. Administration Tracker
- Explore announcements of agency and department cuts - education programs ending - grants and research terminated - legal challenges - regulation rollbacks -- view the impacts and escalating costs.
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July
The Trump Administration Says Cut, Cut, Cut 'Woke' NASA
Damage to NASA & NOAA Earth-Science Programs Is Deep and Extensive
Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response
July 13, 2025
Via the NY Times
As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government’s disaster capabilities
In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, disaster experts say.
Staff reductions, budget cuts and other changes made by the administration since January have already created holes at the National Weather Service, which forecasts and warns of dangerous weather.
Mr. Trump’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year would close 10 laboratories run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that research the ways a warming planet is changing weather, among other things. That work is essential to more accurately predicting life-threatening hazards. Among the shuttered labs would be one in Miami that sends teams of “hurricane hunters” to fly into storms to collect critical data. The proposed budget would also make major cuts to a federal program that uses river gauges to predict floods.
The president is also envisioning a dramatically scaled-down Federal Emergency Management Agency that would shift the costs of disaster response and recovery from the federal government to the states. The administration has already revoked $3.6 billion in grants from FEMA to hundreds of communities around the country, which were to be used to help these areas protect against hurricanes, wildfires and other catastrophes. About 10 percent of the agency’s staff members have left since January, including senior leaders with decades of experience, and another 20 percent are expected to be gone by the end of this year...
The federal government’s retrenchment arrives at a time when climate change is making extreme weather more frequent and severe. Last year, the United States experienced 27 disasters that cost more than $1 billion each...
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Dramatic budget cuts at NOAA could put weather forecasts in peril, lives in danger
Retired federal scientists warn Trump administration's proposed NOAA budget cuts could be costly and harm forecast accuracy
Via USA Today
The Trump administration's plan to dismantle the nation's atmospheric research programs could set U.S. forecasting back a generation or more, a cadre of retired federal hurricane, weather and ocean scientists warns.
The budget proposed by the White House for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is almost half what it was a year ago, and eliminates all funding for the agency's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the division that coordinates and conducts weather and climate research across the nation.
“It will stop all progress” in U.S. forecasting, said James Franklin, who retired in 2017 as chief of the National Hurricane Center’s forecast specialists.
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Project 2025 and Russell Vought
- Attacks on US Science
- Attacks on US Knowledge Base
Over five decades of scientific research, data, programs and national security progress are being put at risk.
“The budget proposed by the White House for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is almost half what it was a year ago, and eliminates all funding for the agency's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the division that coordinates and conducts weather and climate research across the nation.”
Project 2025 and Trump attacks on atmospheric science, earth science, climate science, monitoring of weather events (hurricanes, flooding, agriculture forecasting...) are stark in their retrogressive cuts.
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Project 2025:
Page 675: NOAA "has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity.” As a result, NOAA “should be broken up and downsized.”
Project 2025 demands the agencies within NOAA to be vetted and scrubbed for any research that takes “sides” in the climate change debate, for example, reviewing the data of the National Hurricane Center and National Environmental Satellite Service to ensure it is “presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate” (p. 676)
Cut, chop, destroy is the goal. “Disband the preponderance of the climate-change research” of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, because “it is the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism” (p. 676)
“Ensure Appointees Agree with Administration Aims. Scientific agencies like NOAA are vulnerable to obstructionism of an Administration’s aims if political appointees are not wholly in sync with Administration policy. Particular attention must be paid to appointments in this area.” (p. 677)
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Pathos for US Climate-Related Research & Programs
- Budget Decreases, Position Eliminations and Programs Terminations are sent to Congress
- Cuts in NOAA give a glimpse of the far-reaching and deeply damaging evisceration goals of the Trump administration
- Programs in Earth science, atmospheric science, ocean science, environmental protection, renewable energy, health, and more are terminated
Trump/Vought deliver a budget of terminations for climate research
- Programs in Earth science, atmospheric science, ocean science, environmental protection, renewable energy, health, and more are terminated
Many continue to ask 'Who is Russell Vought?' What is his role?
Russell T. Vought was the 42nd & is currently 44th Director of the US Office of Management and Budget.
He has a central role in shaping the Trump administration overall priorities, policies, budget, and direction of all federal agencies.
Vought launched the Center for Renewing America in 2021 after Trump was defeated for reelection in 2020.
He was a a principal author of Project 2025.
More Bkgrd: * https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radical-plan-second-term
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In its proposed 2026 budget just released (June 30, 2025),
NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs,
including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models
NOAA Under Attack, Trump Administration Cuts in the Announced 2026 Budget Are Deep and Extensive
The calamitous cuts include the elimination of all federally funded meteorological, oceanographic, and climate labs and non-profit cooperative research institutes across America. These world-class centers-of-excellence employ hundreds of the nation’s top weather and climate scientists and deploy key technology to help forecasters accurately predict the world’s most extreme weather. The history of many of the over two dozen labs and institutes slated for closure stretches back 50 to 75 years...
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June 2025
Via Ron Merkord
Science Cuts Go Deep... and Will Have Lasting Costs
In his first months in office, President Trump has slashed funding for medical research, threatening a longstanding alliance between the federal government and universities that helped make the United States the world leader in medical science.
Some changes have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye, a New York Times analysis found. To understand the cuts, The Times trawled through detailed grant data from the National Institutes of Health, interviewed dozens of affected researchers and spoke to agency insiders who said that their government jobs have become unrecognizable. ...
In all, the N.I.H., the world’s premier public funder of medical research, has ended 1,389 awards and delayed sending funding to more than 1,000 additional projects, The Times found. From the day Mr. Trump was inaugurated through April, the agency awarded $1.6 billion less compared with the same period last year, a reduction of one-fifth. (N.I.H. records for May are not yet comparable.) ...
Scientists fear that the sweeping cuts could do long-term damage to U.S. scientific research, which has long driven medical and financial progress for the nation. “The country is going to be mourning the loss of this enterprise for decades,” said Dr. Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize-winning cancer biologist who served as the director of the N.I.H.
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May 2025
Via Fast Company
BREAKING DOWN PROJECT 2025
The Project 2025 Tracker is the result of an unplanned collaboration between two Reddit users. It started with Adrienne Cobb, an archaeologist by trade who, outside of work, runs a political and legal news subreddit with 183,000 members called r/Keep_Track. Last month, Cobb decided to make a spreadsheet tracking the Trump administration’s progress on Project 2025 initiatives, which quickly gained traction on her subreddit.
“Project 2025 is one of the biggest threats to democracy, to the common good, that we’ve faced,” Cobb says. “It is important that Americans understand what it is and how it may impact their lives. But most people don’t have time to read a 900-page document. So, I set out to read it myself and extract the objectives to make it easier for everyone to digest.”
To build the spreadsheet, Cobb sifted through every chapter of Project 2025, each of which “addresses a specific federal agency and recommends how a president can ‘reform’ it in accordance with the Heritage Foundation’s vision.
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Redditors makea website to track Trump’s Project 2025.
The online tracker takes a visual approach to understanding how closely Trump’s second term is mapping the 'far-right' Project 2025 blueprint....
The Project 2025 plan goes far beyond science, the environment, climate, educate... tahe a closer look...
Project 2025 Tracker
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April 2025
Trump dismisses scientists writing the National Climate Assessment
Via E&E News / April 29, 2025
The Trump administration on Monday dismissed all of the scientists working on the newest version of the National Climate Assessment, a sweeping report that outlines the growing dangers of rising temperatures for lawmakers, policy experts and the public.
The sixth installment of the congressionally mandated report, which was due to come out by 2028, has typically been put together by about 400 researchers, many of whom are top scientists at universities who volunteer their time. The assessment is used to craft environmental rules, legislation and infrastructure project planning. It seen by experts as the definitive body of research about how global warming is transforming the country. ...
White House budget director Russ Vought... has urged the Trump administration to toss out all work on the assessment that began under former President Joe Biden. Vought wants to help pick a new group of researchers to issue a report that reflects the administration’s claims that climate change is not a serious threat. That report might focus on how climate change “benefits” the U.S., according to a plan he outlined in Project 2025, the conservative policy proposal produced by the Heritage Foundation.
Earlier this month, the administration defunded the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which supports the assessment. The program, which coordinated the work of 13 federal agencies, had existed for 35 years through Republican and Democratic presidencies, including Trump’s first term.
Trump officials were caught by surprise by the timing of the fourth National Climate Assessment as it was being prepared for release in 2018. Some wanted to withhold the report and fire the scientists who worked on it, but that plan was scuttled. Instead, the White House tried to downplay the report by releasing it the day after Thanksgiving, but that only increased the attention it received.
It’s unclear whom Vought would try to recruit for the next assessment, if there is one.
Read More:
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Cuts, Firings, Scientific & Health Research Programs & Projects Eliminated
- Deep Economic Consequences & Lasting Costs Are Adding Up
- Time for Environmental full-cost accounting & Eco-nomics
Organizations tracking moves that setback/cut & eliminate programs in education, health, earth science, environmental protection, climate action and national security:
Follow the week-to-week Trump rollbacks here:
Trump 2.0 Science Policy Tracker
Deleting and Destroying Data Is Comparable to Burning Books
- Databases are being raided/altered/removed and nulled
- A “war on measurement” removes the capability of scientific study and methods
- https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality
- https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
Mark Jacobs: The "disappearance of data undermines evidence-based assessments and policymaking"
More on rollbacks here:
Recalling a first-phase of science-related rollbacks from 2016-2020
Examine the importance of facts, factual records, measurements, fact-based decision-making here:
GreenPolicy360:
In Defense of Democracy and Freedom
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Public Interest organizations tracking Trump cuts & rollbacks, lawsuits & protests in opposition:
Akin -- https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/blogs/trump-executive-order-tracker
AP -- https://apnews.com/projects/trump-campaign-promise-tracker/
CNN -- https://www.cnn.com/politics/tracking-trump-executive-orders-actions-dg/index.html
Dentons -- https://www.policysoapbox.com/trump-transition-tracker/
Mayer Brown -- https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/resource-centers/washington-update/trump-2-executive-order-tracker
New York Times -- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/trump-agenda-2025.html
Sheppard Mullin -- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C4m_Gzy27HsemsR4bocDUAjl36OumcYh9I1oPnw9pYg/edit?gid=2034954957#gid=2034954957
Tracking Focused on Science, Climate, and Academia
Chronicle of Higher Education -- https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda
Climate Action Campaign -- https://www.actonclimate.com/trumptracker/
National Council of Nonprofits -- https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/files/media/documents/2025/chart-executive-orders.pdf
Science -- https://www.science.org/topic/tags/trump-tracker
Compiling a Record of Litigation
Just Security -- https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/
Washington Post -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/07/trump-lawsuits-executive-orders-actions-legal-challenges/
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Disappearing Federal Data
What is happening to federal data sets?
Beginning in January 2025, many federal datasets, websites, and other previously accessible resources are being taken offline to comply with executive orders, most notably CDC, EPA, and NIH data. Much of the data targeted is ostensibly related to health disparities among different demographics, especially race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Because these variables are important factors in health research, however, many large and broad-scope data sets are affected. Evidence is growing that even datasets that remain accessible on an agency’s website may have scrubbed, corrupted, or otherwise altered information.
Learn more about missing or altered federal data:
The Journalists Resource: overview of the current situation from the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School -- https://journalistsresource.org/home/researchers-rush-to-preserve-federal-health-databases-before-they-disappear-from-government-websites/
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative: advocacy group for access to environmental data -- https://envirodatagov.org/
Is NOAA Going to be Okay?
Interview with Dr. Rick Spinrad, Outgoing NOAA Administrator
The first Trump administration suppressed climate information across federal agency websites, including removing about 40% of mentions of the term “climate change” across a sample of >5,000 federal webpages and removing the entirety of the EPA’s Climate Change website. However, climate information was mostly left intact on NOAA’s Climate.gov. Under the first Trump administration, NOAA continued to collect, manage, store, and disseminate climate data.
Under the second Trump administration, however, NOAA is not able to simply carry on with its work. Once the current round of layoffs has been completed, NOAA will have had to lay off approximately 25% of its workforce since January 20. The Trump administration has also stated its intention to cancel the leases on nearly 750 federal buildings, including the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii that has been integral to global climate data, and NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information in North Carolina, which manages the majority of NOAA’s climate data. These moves undermine federal climate science and public information.
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Via GreenPolicy360: Famous Climate Observatory Could End Because of DOGE
NOAA, the nation’s leading climate science agency, may lose dozens of offices, including one that is key to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii
The world-famous climate-data collection site could close in August 2025
Via NYT
The observatory has been a pole star of global scientific research. The data collected there helped to create the Keeling Curve, a famous upward-sweeping graph that documents the steep rise in carbon dioxide concentrations over decades.
“These data are our eyes on the planet,” said Ralph Keeling, a climate science professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the son of Charles Keeling, the curve’s creator. “It’s really vital base line data for how things are going to change going forward.”
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NOAA’s climate data and information are unparalleled, and provide an international public service. We hope these public resources will remain public.
Note NOAA's legal authority and Congressionally directed mandate:
See EDGI / Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
In March 2025, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) added a “Statutory Authority” section to the “About” page on its Climate.gov and Climate Program Office websites. The new “Statutory Authority” section references three acts of Congress that mandate NOAA disseminate climate and science information. The information was added to the Climate.gov About page between March 6 and 12 and to NOAA’s Climate Policy Office About page between March 18 and 25.
The three authorities listed include:
Section 5(5) of the National Climate Program Act (1978), which directs the Department of Commerce (which includes NOAA) to create a National Climate Program that will “provide reliable, useful and readily available information on a continuing basis” and include “active dissemination of climatological data, information and assessments.”
Section 104(d)(3) of the Global Change Research Act (1990), which mandates the development of a National Global Change Research Plan that includes “produc[ing] information readily usable by policymakers attempting to formulate effective strategies for preventing, mitigating, and adapting to the effects of global change.”
Section 302 (33 U.S. Code § 893a) of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act (2010), which includes directing NOAA to “improve public literacy in STEM.”
Here, NOAA is asserting its congressional mandate to collect and manage climate data, strengthen STEM education, and actively disseminate climate and science information in publicly accessible ways. Substantial information has been removed from agency websites in the past two months, and there are ongoing lawsuits about the legality of the Trump administration’s attempted removal of health and climate data and information from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, and the United States Department of Agriculture websites. Now, it’s reported that important NOAA research websites will go dark tonight. By posting its statutory authorities on its climate websites’ About pages, NOAA is clearly stating that it has a legal right and responsibility to provide this climate information to the public.
The first Trump administration suppressed climate information across federal agency websites, including removing about 40% of mentions of the term “climate change” across a sample of >5,000 federal webpages and removing the entirety of the EPA’s Climate Change website. However, climate information was mostly left intact on NOAA’s Climate.gov. Under the first Trump administration, NOAA continued to collect, manage, store, and disseminate climate data.
Under the second Trump administration, however, NOAA is not able to simply carry on with its work. Once the current round of layoffs has been completed, NOAA will have had to lay off approximately 25% of its workforce since January 20. The Trump administration has also stated its intention to cancel the leases on nearly 750 federal buildings, including the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii that has been integral to global climate data, and NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information in North Carolina, which manages the majority of NOAA’s climate data. These moves undermine federal climate science and public information.
NOAA’s Climate.gov About page, climate.gov/about: Before and After
NOAA’s Climate Policy Office About page, cpo.noaa.gov/about-cpo: Before and After
and then there is a sense of what the Trump administration thinks about 'Climate Literacy'
NOAA Removes the 2024 Climate Literacy Guide from Its Website
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'Verboten' words & Trump presidency purges
Phrase and word searches throughout executive departments/agencies/databases, resulting in word-and-policy budget cuts/program eliminations/employee firings and more...
NYT / March 7 - These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
• accessible
• activism
• activists
• advocacy
• advocate
• advocates
• affirming care
• all-inclusive
• allyship
• anti-racism
• antiracist
• assigned at birth
• assigned female at birth
• assigned male at birth
• at risk
• barrier
• barriers
• belong
• bias
• biased
• biased toward
• biases
• biases towards
• biologically female
• biologically male
• BIPOC
• Black
• breastfeed + people
• breastfeed + person
• chestfeed + people
• chestfeed + person
• clean energy
• climate crisis
• climate science
• commercial sex worker
• community diversity
• community equity
• confirmation bias
• cultural competence
• cultural differences
• cultural heritage
• cultural sensitivity
• culturally appropriate
• culturally responsive
• DEI
• DEIA
• DEIAB
• DEIJ
• disabilities
• disability
• discriminated
• discrimination
• discriminatory
• disparity
• diverse
• diverse backgrounds
• diverse communities
• diverse community
• diverse group
• diverse groups
• diversified
• diversify
• diversifying
• diversity
• enhance the diversity
• enhancing diversity
• environmental quality
• equal opportunity
• equality
• equitable
• equitableness
• equity
• ethnicity
• excluded
• exclusion
• expression
• female
• females
• feminism
• fostering inclusivity
• GBV
• gender
• gender based
• gender based violence
• gender diversity
• gender identity
• gender ideology
• gender-affirming care
• genders
• Gulf of Mexico
• hate speech
• health disparity
• health equity
• hispanic minority
• historically
• identity
• immigrants
• implicit bias
• implicit biases
• inclusion
• inclusive
• inclusive leadership
• inclusiveness
• inclusivity
• increase diversity
• increase the diversity
• indigenous community
• inequalities
• inequality
• inequitable
• inequities
• inequity
• injustice
• institutional
• intersectional
• intersectionality
• key groups
• key people
• key populations
• Latinx
• LGBT
• LGBTQ
• marginalize
• marginalized
• men who have sex with men
• mental health
• minorities
• minority
• most risk
• MSM
• multicultural
• Mx
• Native American
• non-binary
• nonbinary
• oppression
• oppressive
• orientation
• people + uterus
• people-centered care
• person-centered
• person-centered care
• polarization
• political
• pollution
• pregnant people
• pregnant person
• pregnant persons
• prejudice
• privilege
• privileges
• promote diversity
• promoting diversity
• pronoun
• pronouns
• prostitute
• race
• race and ethnicity
• racial
• racial diversity
• racial identity
• racial inequality
• racial justice
• racially
• racism
• segregation
• sense of belonging
• sex
• sexual preferences
• sexuality
• social justice
• sociocultural
• socioeconomic
• status
• stereotype
• stereotypes
• systemic
• systemically
• they/them
• trans
• transgender
• transsexual
• trauma
• traumatic
• tribal
• unconscious bias
• underappreciated
• underprivileged
• underrepresentation
• underrepresented
• underserved
• undervalued
• victim
• victims
• vulnerable populations
• women
• women and underrepresented
Notes: Some terms listed with a plus sign represent combinations of words that, when used together, acknowledge transgender people, which is not in keeping with the current federal government’s position that there are only two, immutable sexes. Any term collected above was included on at least one agency’s list, which does not necessarily imply that other agencies are also discouraged from using it.
Update: A 'War on Words' is becoming a 'War of Words'...
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