Cheers! Politico: ‘Trump moves to hobble major US climate study’ – ‘A potentially fatal blow to the National Climate Assessment’
Killing that contract has “forever severed” climate change work occurring across agencies, said one federal official heavily involved in USGCRP efforts, who was granted anonymity to discuss the politically sensitive issue to avoid retribution.
The practical effect means the National Climate Assessment will not move forward even though Congress requires a new assessment be issued by 2027, said a second official who is involved in USGCRP activities and was also granted anonymity.
ICF International did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A NASA spokesperson did not confirm the contract had been cut but said the agency was “streamlining its contract providing technical, analytical, and programmatic support” for the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
“NASA is working with OSTP on how to best support the congressionally-mandated program while also increasing efficiencies across the 14 agencies and advisory committee supporting this effort,” the spokesperson said in statement.
Several USGCRP officials were being fired Wednesday, said a third official, who works at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The cut comes as President Donald Trump’s EPA has launched an effort to reconsider the climate endangerment finding, the agency’s determination affirming the scientific finding that greenhouse gases harm human health, and which serves as the basis of all U.S. greenhouse gas regulations.
Trump administration officials have had the USGCRP and National Climate Assessment in the crosshairs for years, contending that its findings constrain the administration’s efforts to slash environmental regulations. Trump has also called climate change a hoax despite the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels is the primary driver of global warming.
White House Office and Management and Budget Director Russ Vought supported scrapping it altogether or stacking it with voices more friendly to industry in Project 2025, the blueprint he helped produce at the conservative Heritage Foundation that served as a guide for the Trump presidency written by many current and former Trump officials.
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