Climate Change

NOAA Seeks To Reassign Employees To Understaffed Weather Service Offices

"The Trump administration is seeking to reassign other employees to “critically understaffed” offices in the National Weather Service (NWS), according to an internal document. The move to reassign these other employees comes after the administration fired hundreds of people at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including some staff at the NWS."

Source: The Hill, 05/15/2025

Georgia’s Beloved Shrimp Industry Grapples With Disease And Foreign Imports

"The tart saltwater odor of fresh-caught shrimp hangs thick in the air, stronger even than the earthier scent of marsh and mud, at Bubba Gumbo’s and BG Seafood, a dockside restaurant and seafood market on Tybee Island, Georgia. This is one of many restaurants that dot the creeks and rivers snaking like veins through the coastal Georgia marshes. They run the gamut from the upscale and trendy to more bare-bones joints like this one, adjacent to a working dock."

Source: Grist/WABE, 05/14/2025

"Senate Republicans Balk at House Plan to Gut Energy Tax Cuts"

"Key Senate Republicans are resisting the House’s plan to gut clean energy tax credits, vowing to soften the blow for emerging technologies. The pushback comes just a day after House Republicans released a plan to help pay for an extension of President Donald Trump’s tax cuts by cutting more than $500 billion in energy tax credits from former President Joe Biden’s signature climate law."

Source: Bloomberg, 05/14/2025

Calif. Senator Calls On NOAA To Restore 'Billion-Dollar' Disaster Database

"Democratic Senator Adam Schiff on Tuesday urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's acting secretary to restore a database that tracked billion-dollar U.S. disasters."

Source: Reuters, 05/14/2025

"FEMA Cuts Emergency Training As Hurricane Season Looms"

"The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to current and former officials, memos seen by Reuters, and three sources familiar with the situation."

Source: Reuters, 05/14/2025

"Facing Lawsuit, USDA Says It Will Restore Climate Change-Related Webpages"

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore climate change-related webpages to its websites after it was sued over the deletions in February. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group, argued that the deletions violated rules around citizens’ access to government information."

Source: AP, 05/14/2025

House Natural Resources Chair’s Oil Stock Purchases Were Unusual For Panel

"Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) bought stock in a dozen mining, oil and gas giants two months before ramming an industry-friendly budget bill through his committee."

Source: Public Domain, 05/14/2025

"Amazon Catholics Hope The New Pope Will Protect The Rain Forest"

"The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment."

Source: AP, 05/13/2025

"EPA Tells Scientists To Apply For New Jobs Within The Agency"

"Political leaders at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have told scientists there to apply to new jobs, implying that those who do not may be fired, according to an official with a union representing the agency’s employees."

Source: The Hill, 05/13/2025

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