Trump Budget Would Slash Science across Agencies

Scientific American ---------- The Trump administration wants to eliminate a broad swath of the nation's climate change research infrastructure, including satellites, education programs and science centers. Though it has little chance of being enacted, the Trump administration's budget proposal unveiled yesterday targets hundreds of millions of dollars in climate science, renewable energy research and climate mitigation efforts across a variety of federal agencies, including NASA, NOAA, U.S. EPA and the departments of the Interior and Energy. Many of the proposals are a reprise of last year's spending plan from the White House, which congressional appropriators largely rejected. Already, Republicans and Democrats alike have slammed some of the White House's latest spending proposals and promised they would not survive congressional scrutiny. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.