The groups protested funding cuts, reductions in staff, and demoralizing working conditions.
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White House R&D Priorities Differ from Its Budget Requests
The administration’s top R&D priority areas are American military superiority, security, prosperity, energy dominance, and health.
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Trump Administration Moving Closer to Picking Science Director
The White House is considering separating the usually merged roles of director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.
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Trump Administration Scrutinizing Protected Ocean Areas
A recently initiated review of some marine sanctuaries and monuments has conservationists worried that ecological, cultural, and other benefits from those protected areas may not be considered.
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Strong NSF Funding Favored by House Spending Committee
Although the federal budget request lowers the agency’s funding by 11%, a House appropriations committee chair declared at a hearing his panel’s commitment to U.S. leadership in fundamental research.
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USGS Funding Slashed 15% in Proposed Federal Budget
Requested fiscal year 2018 spending levels support energy and mineral resources programs but make deep cuts to climate programs and many other areas.
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Trump Says United States Will Withdraw from Paris Climate Accord
Scientists and others decry the decision, arguing that it will slow efforts to address the risks of climate change.
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Planetary Science Up, Earth Science Down in Proposed NASA Budget
The agency’s acting administrator says that the fiscal year 2018 White House budget request tells NASA to stay the course.
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Trump Budget Would Set National Science Foundation Back a Decade
Directorate for Geosciences faces 10.7% cut.
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Federal Science Funding Drops Sharply in Trump Budget Plan
Congress has shown bipartisan support for Earth and space sciences in the past. Advocates hope it will do so again.