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NOAA says it will discontinue its billion-dollar disaster database
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday it will archive its database of billion-dollar climate disasters, as the Trump administration cuts resource at the agency.
It collects information from federal and state agencies and insurance companies to estimate the dollar impacts of individual events such as hurricanes or wildfires. The Trump administration has made deep cuts to NOAA staffing since the beginning of the term, leading experts and lawmakers to warn that lives would be at risk going forward as services and tools were shuttered. It has sued states to stop them from holding fossil emitters accountable, sought to strip powers of environmental regulation from the government and targeted climate-friendly initiatives with executive orders.
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