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MAGA vs NOAA, Executive Orders, and Growing IRA Support

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The Drain is a new weekly roundup of climate and environmental news from Legal Planet.

Trump wants to “Make Weather a Mystery Again.” The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAA’s climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, according …

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