Colorado, Presidency of Donald Trump and NCAR
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Dismantling the nation’s premier weather and climate institution would have “a horrible impact on the local level,” says the chair of the International Association of Emergency Managers USA Weather Caucus.
The state's senators and representatives are urging colleagues to continue funding the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
The Trump administration announced plans Tuesday to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research, an organization responsible for improved weather models to tools that aid hurricane safety.
The Trump administration says it will dismantle a premier climate center, while somehow keeping weather forecasting intact.
The Trump administration's threat to close NCAR over "climate alarmism" endangers vital research impacting weather forecasts, air safety and our daily lives.
The Trump administration is making another move impacting Colorado. Tuesday night, the White House's Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) took to X to say the administration is "breaking up" the National Center on Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder.
A business leader and elected officials in Colorado are sharply attacking the Trump administration’s announced decision to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which opened in Boulder in 1960 and employs 830 people.
A Democratic congressman from Colorado is among those leading the opposition to plans by President Trump's administration to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research.