Explanation: Budget Cuts

Explanation: Budget Cuts
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2018-02-27 | EPA Research Center to be Eliminated | US EPA | Budget Cuts, Personnel Changes | Other | EPA’s National Center for Environmental Research, which distributes grants for research on the effects of chemical exposure, will be eliminated as part of an agency reorganization involving the merger of three research offices. |
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2018-02-12 | NASA Budget Cuts Proposed for FY19 | NASA | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2019 budget proposes to reduce funding for NASA by 0.3% (compared to FY2017 levels). Among other things, the budget would eliminate funding for the international space station from 2025, cancel a project to upgrade communications satellites, and terminate five earth sciences research missions. |
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2018-02-12 | EPA Budget Cuts Proposed for FY19 | US EPA | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2019 budget proposes to cut EPA funding by 33.7% (compared to FY2017 levels), and eliminate a number of the agency’s research and education programs, including the Climate Change Research and Partnership Program and the Environmental Education Program. |
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2018-02-12 | DOI Budget Cuts Proposed for FY19 | US DOI | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2019 budget proposes to reduce funding for DOI by 16.8% (compared to FY2017 levels). The reductions are achieved, in part, through cuts to various DOI grant programs. |
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2018-02-12 | USDA Budget Cuts Proposed for FY19 | USDA | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2019 budget proposes to cut USDA funding by 16.4% (compared to FY2017 levels). Under the budget, funding for a number of USDA research programs, including statistical research programs administered by the Economic Research Service, would be reduced or eliminated. |
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2018-02-12 | NSF Program Cuts Proposed for FY19 | NSF | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2019 budget proposes cuts to a number of National Science Foundation (NSF) programs, including a 56% reduction in the NSF account that supports the construction of research platforms and the acquisition of scientific instruments. |
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2018-02-12 | DOE Program Cuts Proposed for FY19 | US DOE | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2019 budget proposes to cut funding for DOE by 3.4% (compared to FY2017 levels). Funding for DOE’s innovation arm, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), would be eliminated and funding for its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy cut in half. |
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2018-02-12 | NIH Budget Cuts Proposed for FY19 | US HHS | Budget Cuts | Other | The Trump administration’s FY2019 budget proposes to maintain funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at FY2017 levels, despite imposing additional responsibilities on the NIH, including establishing three new sub-institutes to take over functions currently performed by other HHS offices. |
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2018-02-12 | NOAA Budget Cuts Proposed for FY19 | US DOC | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2019 budget proposes to reduce funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by 20% compared to FY2017 levels. Among other things, the budget would eliminate $273 million in funding for NOAA grant programs, including the National Sea Grant College Program and National Estuarine Research Reserve System. |
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2017-12-28 | New Grants Process Adopted by DOI | US DOI | Budget Cuts, Research Hindrance | Other | DOI staff were directed to ensure that grants to outside groups promote the Trump Administration’s policies and have certain grants of $50,000 or more approved by political appointees. |
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2017-12 | Funding for Offshore Drilling Safety Study Suspended | US DOI | Budget Cuts | Other | DOI ordered the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to “stop-work” on a study of offshore oil and gas drilling commissioned by BSEE pending review. |
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2017-08-18 | Coal Mining Study Paused by DOI | US DOI | Budget Cuts | Other | DOI’s Office of Surface Mining directed the National Academy of Sciences to stop work on a study of potential health effects from mountaintop removal coal mining. DOI had previously committed $1 million for the study, but is now reconsidering its funding decision. |
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2017-08 | EPA Grants Reviewed by Political Appointee | US EPA | Budget Cuts, Research Hindrance | Climate | EPA announced that it will require new and certain existing grants to be approved by a political appointee, who has told staff he is looking for references to “climate change.” |
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2017-07 | Research Grants Cancelled by HHS | US HHS | Budget Cuts | Other | HHS cancelled $213.6 million in funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs and research. The cancellation will affect five-year grants awarded to 80 institutions by the Obama administration. |
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2017-05-23 | DOD’s FY18 Budget Request Cut by Trump Administration | US DOD | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s proposed FY2018 budget included $347 million in funding for climate and environmental research at DOD. This represents less than 1% of the amount requested by DOD and would result in cuts to several research programs. |
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2017-05-23 | DOE’s FY18 Budget Cut by Trump Administration | US DOE | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2018 budget proposes a 59% cut in funding for DOE’s earth and environmental sciences program which plays a key role in federal climate change research. |
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2017-05-23 | NIH’s FY18 Budget Cut by Trump Administration | US HHS | Budget Cuts | Other | The Trump administration’s FY2018 budget proposed a 25% cut in funding for research programs at NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. |
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2017-05-23 | DHS’s FY18 Budget Cut by Trump Administration | US DHS | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY 2018 budget proposed an 11% cut in funding for DHS programs supporting climate and other environmental research. |
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2017-05-23 | DOI’s FY18 Budget Cut by Trump Administration | US DOI | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2018 budget proposed a 19% cut in funding for climate and environmental research programs at DOI. |
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2017-05-23 | EPA’s FY18 Budget Cut by Trump Administration | US EPA | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2018 budget proposes to cut funding for EPA climate and environmental research programs by 39% or $438 million. |
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2017-05-23 | NASA’s FY18 Budget Cut by Trump Administration | NASA | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2018 budget proposes to cut funding for NASA climate and environmental research programs by 8% or $151 million. |
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2017-05-23 | NOAA’s FY18 Budget Cut by Trump Administration | US DOC | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2018 budget proposed to cut funding for NOAA’s climate and environmental research programs by 7% or $49 million. |
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2017-05-23 | NSF’s FY18 Budget Cut by Trump Administration | NSF | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2018 budget proposed a 10% cut funding in for NSF climate and environmental research programs. This is expected to lead to 800 fewer awards to universities and other institution in 2018 compared to 2017. |
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2017-05-23 | USDA’s FY18 Budget Cut by Trump Administration | USDA | Budget Cuts | Climate, Other | The Trump administration’s FY2018 budget proposed a 12% cut in funding for USDA climate and environmental research programs. |
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2017 | Four Climate Fellowships Rescinded by NOAA | US DOC | Budget Cuts | Climate | Budget cuts resulted in NOAA rescinding four of the eight offers made to researchers to participate in the 2017 Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. As a result, fewer researchers participated in the 2017 program than in any other year since it was launched. |
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2017 | 10 Year Research Project Cancelled by DOE | US DOE | Budget Cuts | Climate | DOE cancelled an ongoing project researching how tropical forests will respond to climate change. The study, which involved over 130 scientists, was launched in 2015 and due to continue until 2025, but will shut down 7 years early (in 2018). |