Yesterday—4 days after OMB released its proposal to revamp all federal funding—there were 3500+ comments. Today there are nearly 4,500. Our story on the damage the proposal could inflict on science and the researchers pushing back. Reported w/@marilenharo.bsky.social:

White House proposes vast overhaul of US science funding: what you need to know

The Trump administration’s proposal aims to improve transparency in federal funding, but critics fear the proposed rules would politicize research

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Update on NSF grant funding: As of April 27, NSF has spent money on 737 new grants for FY26. Avg. for '21–25 at this point is 3303, so NSF is at about 22%. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

Pretty good summary of the forces arrayed against the CO2 endangerment finding. I think they are counting their chickens prematurely. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation

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Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

Trump moves to pull the US from bedrock climate treaty, UN IPCC and other int'l orgs & UN agencies. In doing so, the US becomes the only country to withdraw from this particular climate agreement dating back to 1992 (UNFCCC). www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/c...

Trump moves to pull US out of bedrock global climate treaty, becoming first country to do so | CNN

The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of the bedrock treaty that underpins international cooperation on climate change, along with dozens of other global bodies.

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Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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An absolute clown show. Avoiding chaos like this is one of the many reasons a for *not* having EOs be the normal method of legislating or regulating. You really want more careful review than “Steve Miller doodled it on a napkin and Trump signed it with a sharpie.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Trump administration tries to tamp down panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul

The president announced Friday that H-1B visas will now come with a $100,000 annual fee, but a U.S. official said it will only apply to new visa applicants.

politico.com

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

My latest: The Trump administration is not waiting for the next fiscal year -- or Congress -- to cut climate science at NOAA. A new document details the money it won't spend *this* year on climate research.

Trump administration pushes ahead with NOAA climate and weather cuts

Despite congressional resistance, agency aims to cut research spending now

science.org

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency

NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.

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Breaking: Judge vacates NSF's suspension of ~300 UCLA grants on the grounds that they are covered by a preexisting TRO. "The suspensions have the same effect, and are based on the same type of deficient explanations, as the original terminations." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Historic heatwave unfolding in France. Bordeaux just observed its hottest day on record with a provisional 41.6°C (107°F) — data since 1920. Red level extreme heat warnings are in force for the south of the country. Sadly, this heatwave is far from over...

California’s main wildfire season is starting earlier this year, and human-caused climate change is a major reason, new research finds. Here's what to know. nyti.ms/3J60QdI

“In his second administration, President Donald Trump is not just approaching climate science with skepticism. Instead, his administration is moving to destroy the methods by which his or any future administration can respond to climate change.“

Analysis: The US government has declared war on the very idea of climate change | CNN Politics

Americans are used to whiplash in their climate policy. The US has been in and out and in and out again of the key Paris climate agreement over the past four presidencies.

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NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

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Here it is. Looks like 280 grants, since a number were already expired. Total for $189 million, with about half of it spent and half yet to be spent. grant-witness.us/nsf-data.html

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

Multiple scientists cited in the DOE report downplaying the severity of climate change said their work was misrepresented. @mollytaft.com has the scoop on just how exactly data from nine of them was cherrypicked and twisted

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

wired.com

The Trump administration's climate science report is riddled with cherry-picked data, sweeping claims easily contradicted by a vast body of research and long-debunked climate denial tropes. @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and I fact-check some claims here: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

EPA attacks climate science. Here are the facts.

The Trump administration's proposal to roll back the endangerment finding includes many misleading and inaccurate claims.

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Why is the EPA administrator saying CO2 is "essential for life?" @eroston.bsky.social and I put together a glossary of the administration's climate language and the strategies behind the words

America’s New Language of Climate Denial

The Trump administration has moved from outright denying the science of global warming to simply dismissing it.

bloomberg.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Lee Zeldin: "They say that climate change endangers public health. You have many on the left who will say carbon dioxide is a pollutant, and they won't talk about the all of the many reasons why carbon dioxide is actually quite essential for life here on our planet."

Well tonight’s Friday government news dump is horribly depressing- EPA to eliminate their entire research branch (ORD). I’ve been on ORD’s science advisory board the last few years and they do amazing work across climate, air, water and other issue. This sucks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

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Stumbled across this textbook from 1980 today. It’s remarkable how accurate the first sentence remains today.

NOAA's network of climate monitoring stations and sample collectors is the backbone of tracking global climate change. Trump's proposed budget would shut it down. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...

After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

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Now that NOAA is no longer tracking billion-dollar weather disasters, rely on insurance broker Gallagher Re, who just released their list for the first half of 2025. So far, we are near the 10-year average. The CA wildfires ($65 billion) were the 8th-costliest weather disaster in world history.

U.S. socked with 15 billion-dollar weather disasters during the 1st half of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections

Four of the top 20 costliest weather disasters have occurred in the last year.

yaleclimateconnections.org

Today NASA backtracked on its statement earlier this month that the National Climate Assessments would be hosted on their website. “NASA has no legal obligations to host globalchange.gov’s data,” a spokeswoman said today. “We never did and will not host the data.”www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/c...re

NASA Website Will Not Provide Previous National Climate Reports

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The Senate Committee on Appropriations gave the first signs Congress will push back on Trump's proposed budget cuts to science and instead keep funding flat, though an unrelated issue (the location of the FBI headquarters) stalled any vote today. @alexwitze.bsky.social and I report:

US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts

Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

nature.com

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc