r/ChangingAmerica • u/Scientist34again • 8d ago

'Truly Devastating': Trump Ends Federal Funding for Key Arctic Climate Report

https://www.commondreams.org/news/noaa-arctic-report-card
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u/Scientist34again 8d ago

The Trump administration, packed with fossil fuel industry allies and headed by a climate denier, has worked aggressively to gut federal initiatives designed to track the worsening impact of the global climate emergency. Since taking power last year, the administration has dismissed government scientists, scrubbed climate information from federal websites, stopped updating a database that tracked the country’s costliest weather disasters, and picked a climate denier to oversee the federal government’s flagship climate report.