The Trump administration has shut off funding to at least two government-sponsored university centers researching ways to help communities adapt to droughts, wildfires, flooding and sea level rise.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Adaptation Center in the Pacific Northwest and another center that declined to be named lost funding as of May 5, NOTUS confirmed. Eleven more centers across the country remain funded.
Representatives for many of the remaining centers declined to comment for fear that the Trump administration would also cancel their funding. Two described a “sword hanging over our head.” None would identify the second center that had been cut on the record.