The US plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a key climate-science hub in Boulder, Colorado, which the Trump administration says strayed from its mission decades ago by taking up climate change research. The announcement came as a shock to the scientific community as well as Colorado officials, who have vowed to fight the proposal.
Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on X Tuesday night that the center, which is sponsored and funded by the National Science Foundation, would be dismantled.
Russell Vought
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A senior White House official on Wednesday called NCAR a stronghold ...