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Véronique LaCapra/WHOI via APA group of lawmakers sent letters Monday to the National Science Foundation asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network, with some accusing the agency of acting illegally. -
Darlene Trew Crist/APIn what a scientist called "a crippling loss of information," the Trump administration is dismantling a vital $386 million network of ocean sensors, including Oregon and Washington's coast.
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The federal government denied a petition to list Chinook salmon along the Oregon and Northern California coasts as endangered. -
President Donald Trump's proposal would defund the 11-region Integrated Ocean Observing System — cutting off the buoys, drones and radar that feed Oregon, Washington state and other coasts the real-time wave, wind and current data vital for safe shipping, tsunami routes and storm forecasts. -
The Trump administration wants to eliminate several programs that benefit Pacific salmon, the iconic but widely threatened species of the Pacific Northwest. -
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the latest U.S. government agency to face job cuts as the Trump administration continues slashing the federal workforce.
