Cuts
2017
2017-01-01 Trump proposed a 16% cut to NOAA’s budget and deeper cuts to the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. Both proposals were rejected by Congress.
https://www.aip.org/fyi/2017/trump-budget-cuts-noaa-16-slashes-research-funding-even-deeper
https://thebridge.agu.org/2017/05/31/noaa-cut-16-president-trumps-budget-request/
https://www.nrdc.org/bio/alison-chase/trump-budget-slashes-coastal-and-ocean-funding
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.21652
2025 January
2025-01-20 Pages 674 and 675 of Project 2025 label organizations like The National Weather Service as climate-change alarmists and call for action to dismantle them, The National Ocean Service, The Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, The National Environmental Satellite, Data and information Service, The national Marine Fisheries Service, and the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and NOAA Corps.
https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 13990 Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14008 Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14027 Establishment of the Climate Change Support Office.
2025 February
2025-02-01 DOGE terminated hundreds of probationary employees across NOAA including staff at critical weather forecasting centers. Some operational impacts included weather balloon launches, leadership roles, and the ability to operate offices 24/7.
2025 April
2025-04-01 The Trump administration proposed a $1.7B (27%) cut to NOAA’s 2026 budget, eliminating nearly all climate research labs and research related to coastal and ocean science.
2025-04-09 The Trump administration cut funding to Princeton, claiming the cuts were over antisemitism concerns, but also citing the motive that Princeton climate research promoted “exaggerated and implausible climate threats”.
2025-04-28 As outlined on page 59 of Project 2025, all authors working on the National Climate Assessment report were dismissed.
https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5380816/climate-assessment-authors-released
2025 July
2025-07-01 The Trump administration purged climate-change reports and globalchange.gov.
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/ NO LONGER WORKING
https://www.globalchange.gov/ NO LONGER WORKING
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/01/climate-change-reports-removed-trump
2025-07-18 The EPA issued a press release stating they had cut 23% of its personnel.
2025 August
2025-08-04 Trump pushed to end two NASA satellite missions designed to measure atmospheric CO2 and plant health. Still under debate, NASA is considering moving these instruments to the ISS and maintaining them through private funding.
2025 September
2025-09-30 The Trump administration reported they planned to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025 on top of the 23% they had already cut in July.
2025 December
2025-12-19 The Trump administration expressed plans to completely dismantle the climate and weather center NCAR, with Trump’s budget director Russ Vought posting that the National Center for Atmospheric Research was a “source of climate alarmism”.
https://x.com/russvought/status/2001099488774033692?s=20
2026 January
2026-01-07 Trump signed a memorandum to eliminate the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy.