Trump cuts to weather monitoring, climate research put millions at risk, expert warns
President Trump’s cuts to monitoring weather and climate research will put millions of Americans at risk, an expert warned this week.
Alonzo Plough, a researcher and chief science officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, warned in an op-ed published Monday that extreme weather and associated health risks will harm people across the country.
“Rather than protecting families and communities from these harms, however, the Trump administration has sent a far different message to the American people: You’re on your own,” Plough wrote.
His article comes after the Trump administration has sought to reduce federal spending, which has........
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