Fisheries will be thrown into chaos if NOAA is defunded. Photo: Brett Seymour
On the campaign trail, President Trump made a variety of promises about “dismantling” and “defunding” key federal agencies that focus on the environment, like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the EPA. Project 2025, a policy agenda that dedicates a full sixth of its pages to attacking environmental protections, calls for “breaking up” NOAA and substantially stripping funding from the EPA. The Trump administration’s policy priorities, a chaotic barrage of executive orders, and agency appointments seem to be using this agenda as a blueprint.
At a time when we need to be doubling down on safeguarding the health of our communities and environment, the Trump administration is trying to strip those protections away. They won’t get away with it without a fight.
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