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Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disasters | US abruptly stops tracking costs of the most devastating storms.
US abruptly stops tracking costs of the most devastating storms.
Since 1980, the database made it possible to track the growing costs of the nation's most devastating weather events, critically pooling various sources of private data that have long been less accessible to the public. Considering that CNN noted the average number of disasters in the past five years jumped from nine annually to 24, shutting down the database could leave communities in the dark on costs of emerging threats. CNN dubbed the database's closure "another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly."
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