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Trump’s NOAA pick stands by budget cuts, calls staffing ‘a top priority’
Neil Jacobs stressed a desire to see the more than 120 Weather Service forecast offices across the country be fully staffed.
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Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts
Downsizing at the National Weather Service appears to be part of an effort by Republicans to privatize such agencies. In some ...
Debate erupts over role job cuts played in weather forecasts ahead of deadly Texas floods
Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s staffing cuts to the ...
Who is Neil Jacobs? Meet Trump’s nominee to lead NOAA in the wake of Texas floods
President Donald Trump’s nominees for NOAA, Neil Jacobs and Taylor Jordan, will appear before the Senate Committee on Commerce.
NOAA delays cutoff of satellite data for predicting hurricane forecasting
The program was initially supposed to be cut off June 30 to "mitigate a significant cybersecurity risk," NOAA said in an ...
Severe storms, flash flood threat target 85M+ along I-95 covering Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York
Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City will likely see periods of heavy rain in addition to potentially damaging wind gusts beginning Tuesday afternoon as severe storms fire up over more ...
Schumer asks inspector general to investigate link between NWS staff cuts and Texas flood
Chuck Schumer asked acting Inspector General Roderick Anderson to investigate if recent NWS staff cuts affected the death ...