NOAA Budget Mirrors Trump Plan for Cuts; Document Details Staff, Spending Reductions
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A new budget document from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spells out in detail what many scientists and researchers both in and out of the federal government have feared since a White House budget proposal in the spring.
If approved by Congress, it would reduce NOAA's expenses by 30%, roughly $2 billion, and the 12,000-member staff by 18%.
It would eliminate the agency's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and zero out funding for its climate, weather and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes, which work...
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