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"White House Outlines Plan To Gut NOAA, Smother Climate Research"

"The agency’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research would be “eliminated as a line office,” according to a memo from the Office of Management and Budget."

"The Trump administration wants to effectively break up NOAA and end its climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, budget documents show.

The move, outlined in a memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget, carries forward President Donald Trump’s broader goals of slashing federal spending, gutting climate research and unleashing U.S. energy production.

But it also represents a dramatic shift in NOAA’s mission.

NOAA has long served as the nation’s preeminent climate and weather agency, and the new marching orders would downsize those functions in the pursuit of a “leaner NOAA,” the memo says.

It calls for a sharp spending cut at the agency."

Daniel Cusick, Chelsea Harvey, and Scott Waldman report for E&E News April 11, 2025.

SEE ALSO:

"White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled" (New York Times)

"Trump Plan Would Eliminate NOAA Climate Research, Slash Agency Budget" (Washington Post)

"As NOAA Cuts Continue, Ocean Researchers Worry About Monitoring Programs" (Inside Climate News)

Source: E&E News, 04/14/2025