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The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination, according to two sources close to the agency. More layoffs are possible Friday, one of the sources said, potentially cos...
A congressional source told CBS News the layoffs affected 880 NOAA employees. An administration official told CBS News about 5% of the agency's staff was let go, and nobody who was deemed critical to NOAA's responsibilities, such as National Weather Service meteorologists, was affected. A sourc...
The Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen called mass layoffs within the commerce departments flatly illegal in a letter on Wednesday to the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick.That same day, climate nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists sent a separate letter to Lutnick, signed by more than 2,500...
“This round of layoffs is going to hurt. It’s going to start to degrade the services that people depend on,” said Jeff Watters, vice president of external affairs at Ocean Conservancy. But, he noted, “the more you whack at NOAA, the more you hurt the services that rely on day in...
“They. Are. Essential,” he continued. Chief Meteorologist at NBC Pete Bouchardpostedthat the layoffs were “terrible news” and shared a post from Al Roker who pointed out that this will not be good going into severe weather and hurricane season. ...
“They. Are. Essential,” he continued. Chief Meteorologist at NBC Pete Bouchardpostedthat the layoffs were “terrible news” and shared a post from Al Roker who pointed out that this will not be good going into severe weather and hurricane season. ...
Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the U.S.
Current and former NOAA employees told CNN the agency’s forecast modeling divisions were gutted by the layoffs. “Everyone complains about how the American (GFS) model isn’t the best. Well, you’re not going to make it the best by firing a bunch of people who are working on it,” sa...