Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Shut Down
- Publisher
- Insurance Journal (Bloomberg)
- Published
- 2025-08-06
- Type
- news report
- Link
- https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/08/06/834819.htm
- Last checked
- 2026-10-27
- Rights
- reference only — we link and describe; we do not republish the text.
Cited in
-
Environment and Science
About 600 forecasters gone, weather balloons grounded, the billion-dollar disaster databa…
The Weather Service lost about 600 of 4,200 staff in 2025; nearly a dozen balloon sites cut launches; NOAA stopped its disaster database in May 2025; the Austin office had six vacancies on July 4, 2025. Congress refused the NOAA cut.