How Could the Weather Service Change Under Trump?

How Could the Weather Service Change Under Trump?

As President Trump issues rapid-fire executive orders intended to drastically reduce the federal work force and dismantle several agencies, many federal employees are left wondering what the future holds. At the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency with wide-ranging responsibilities that include disentangling whales from fishing nets off Alaska, gathering satellite data on…

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Why Coal Has Been So Hard to Quit in the U.S.

Why Coal Has Been So Hard to Quit in the U.S.

In the United States at least, coal is a terminal case. While it once dominated the nation’s power grid, hundreds of units have shuttered over the last two decades and have been largely replaced by natural gas and renewables like solar and wind. More than half of the remaining coal units in the United States…

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