Climate change

 Newsworthy

 The Trump administration has removed access to National Climate Assessment websites and dismissed approximately 400 scientists and experts who worked on climate forecasting.

• Local governments, particularly mid-sized and smaller cities lacking in-house climate expertise, now face significant challenges in planning for infrastructure, emergency preparedness, and budgeting without access to region-specific climate data.
• Despite the 1990 Global Change Research Act mandate requiring a national climate assessment every four years, the administration has eliminated funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program that oversees the assessment.
• Previous reports included county-level impact data that helped communities make evidence-based decisions about resource allocation and risk mitigation.