Dozens of House Democrats are sponsoring legislation to block the Trump administration from shuttering NOAA and National Weather Service offices. The “Stop NOAA Closures Act,” from Rep. Gabe Amo of Rhode Island and Natural Resources ranking member Jared Huffman of California, would impose a moratorium on closing offices, terminating leases, stopping construction and other new limits on access. The bill is co-sponsored by Science Space and Technology ranking member Zoe Lofgren of California and 59 other House Democrats. It’s the latest in a series of congressional actions trying to stop or slow President Donald Trump’s campaign to downsize NOAA and extinguish much of the nation’s climate science apparatus.

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