At least one member of the DOGE was requested access.
Signage outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Weather and Climate Prediction headquarters in College Park, Md., Dec. 5, 2024.
Signage outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Weather and Climate Prediction headquarters in College Park, Md., Dec. 5, 2024.Personnel changes are being made at the agency, Democratic staff for the House Science, Space and Technology Committee told ABC News, adding that dismantling NOAA without an act of Congress would be unlawful.
"During this outage, the National Weather Service office in Pueblo will be performing service backup so that all forecast products and information will be seamlessly available across Boulder's area of responsibility. Other websites hosted by the Global Monitoring Laboratory, Global Systems Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Laboratory and Physical Sciences Laboratory will be offline until power is restored," they said.
"NOAA is a vital piece of our communication strategy," said Jennifer Brady, senior data analyst and research manager at the nonprofit research group Climate Central. "Their data is vetted, it's verified. So, we know we can use it and trust it in our reports."
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