Disasters

"Summer-Like Slug Of Heat Pushes Across Much Of North America"

"One of the most eye-popping late-spring heat waves on record made its way from the Pacific Coast into the center of North America this week. Numerous towns and cities have notched their hottest days and/or warmest nights ever experienced this early in the season, and some have soared to readings unheard of anytime before June."

Source: Yale Climate Connections, 05/16/2025

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

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

Trump To Stop US Research On Space Pollution, In Boon To Elon Musk

"The Trump administration is poised to kill federal research into pollution from satellites and rockets, including some caused by Elon Musk’s space companies, raising new conflict-of-interest questions about the billionaire SpaceX and Starlink owner."

Source: Guardian, 05/12/2025

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