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President Donald Trump, left, listens as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Sunday, July 6, 2025, en route to Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts

By Brian Slodysko and Michael Biesecker - Associated Press

Travis Law uses a portable fan as he tries to stay cool in Busch Stadium before the start of a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds Saturday, June 21, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Early-season heat dome brings highest temperatures in years to parts of Eastern U.S.

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Dustin Holmes, second from right, holds hands with his girlfriend, Hailey Morgan, while returning to their flooded home with her children Aria Skye Hall, 7, right, and Kyle Ross, 4, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Sept. 27, 2024, in Crystal River, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Turmoil, worry swirl over cuts to key federal agencies as hurricane season begins

By Seth Borenstein and Gabriela Aoun Angueira - Associated Press

A neighborhood still flooded from Hurricane Milton prepares to have the FEMA Disaster Recover Center covert to a polling location for the general election on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Ridge Manor, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson, File)

U.S. will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change

By Alexa St. John - Associated Press

This June 4, 1942 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows Japanese Type 97 shipboard attack aircraft from the carrier Hiryu amid heavy anti-aircraft fire, during the torpedo attack on USS Yorktown (CV-5) in the mid-afternoon. Researchers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are honing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific. A research vessel called the Petrel is launching underwater robots about halfway between the U.S. and Japan in search of warships from the Battle of Midway. (U.S. Navy via AP, File)

Explorers find Battle of Midway’s bombers near wreck of USS Yorktown

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - Earielle London looks back as she and other students from Alabama A&M and Tuskegee Universities march into the woods for a wildland firefighter training June 9, 2023, in Hazel Green, Ala. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Trump backs higher pay for wildland firefighters while DOGE cuts wildfire support staff

By Martha Bellisle - Associated Press

Susie House, front, and David Hill hold up signs as they join hundreds of others during a large rally and protest outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration campus Monday, March 3, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP)

The U.S. agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Katy Frank, left, a former computer scientist at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, who lost her job Thursday, protests outside the John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Detroit, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Firings at U.S. weather and oceans agency risk lives and economy, former agency heads warn

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

The National Weather Service monitoring station is seen in Brownville, Texas, May 23, 2014. (Valley Morning Star/Valley Morning Star via AP, File)

DOGE cuts target weather forecasters in latest firing wave

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

The Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis, are seen in the sky near Knaresborough, England, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (Andrew Hawkes via AP)

What’s behind the northern lights that dazzled the sky farther south than normal

Associated Press

South York Street on Wheeling Island is closed to traffic as the Ohio River floods its banks, Thursday, April 4, 2024, in Wheeling, W.Va., following days of heavy rains in the region. (John McCabe/The Intelligencer via AP)

Watchdog accuses Biden administration of inflating climate disaster numbers

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

This image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows dead elkhorn coral on Feb. 9, 2024, at Carysfort Reef, northeast of Key Largo, Fla. Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species that’s highly vulnerable to climate change, researchers discovered. (Ben Edmonds/NOAA via AP)

Hot seawater killed most of cultivated coral in Florida Keys in setback for restoration effort

Associated Press

Land-based wind turbines spin in Atlantic City, N.J. on Nov. 3, 2023. On Jan. 24, 2024, New Jersey utilities regulators approved two additional offshore wind farms, bringing the state's number to three. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

U.S. agencies set plans to protect endangered right whales during offshore wind operations

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

FILE - A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., March 28, 2018. A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to enact emergency rules to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with large ships. The groups filed their petition with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Sept. 28 in an effort to protect the North Atlantic right whale. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Environmental groups demand emergency rules to protect rare whales from ship collisions

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Land-based wind turbines in Atlantic City, N.J., turn on July 20, 2023. Two major offshore wind power projects are taking steps forward in New Jersey as the owners of one project agreed to bring the federal government in on their environmental monitoring plans at an earlier stage than has ever been done, and federal regulators said plans for another project are not expected to kill or seriously injure marine life. They come as New Jersey continues to grow as a hub of opposition to offshore wind projects from residents' groups and their political allies, mostly Republicans. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)

Offshore wind energy plans advance in New Jersey amid opposition

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

FILE - Banggai cardinalfish swim in a tank at an export warehouse in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, April 12, 2021. The federal government is looking to ban importation and exportation of the species of tropical fish that conservation groups have long said is exploited by the pet trade. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom, File)

U.S. looks to ban imports, exports of a tropical fish threatened by aquarium trade

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

A piece of wall is seen amid the wreckage of Nina Lavigna's beachfront home, after half of her house collapsed following Hurricane Nicole, Nov. 12, 2022, in Wilbur-By-The-Sea, Fla. Record hot ocean temperatures and a tardy El Nino are doubling the chances of a nasty Atlantic hurricane season this summer and fall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Here come the hurricanes, more than previously forecast, say weather officials

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

The sun sets behind a land-based wind farm in Atlantic City, N.J. on Feb. 10, 2022. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, issued a report concluding that New Jersey's first planned offshore wind farm, Ocean Wind I, will likely have adverse impacts on whales and other marine animals, but will not seriously harm or kill them. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

NOAA: NJ wind farm may ‘adversely affect,’ not kill whales

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

A police officer in Seaside Park N.J. rides a beach buggy near a dead whale on the beach on March 2, 2023. On Tuesday, March 28, Democratic U.S. senators from four states called upon the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to address a spate of whale deaths on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The issue has rapidly become politicized, with mostly Republican lawmakers and their supporters blaming offshore wind farm preparation for the East Coast deaths despite assertions by NOAA and other federal and state agencies that the two are not related. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Dem senators from 4 states ask NOAA to address whale deaths

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Headquarters stands in Silver Spring, Maryland on June 30, 2018. (File Photo credit: Mark Van Scyoc via Shutterstock)

Federal worker who ran for Congress as a Democrat gets fired

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times