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NOAA’s budget is too small. That’s costing the US billions of dollars
With a fiscal year 2024 budget of $6.3 billion, the nation’s leading weather and climate agency remains significantly underfunded.
By Scott Rayder
What is an Environmental Justice Scorecard?
The scorecard is designed to publicly assess progress the federal government is – or isn’t – making on environmental justice issues.
By Melissa Rayworth for Federal Times
US judge strikes down Biden climate damage cost estimate
U.S. District Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana sided with Republican attorneys general from energy producing states who said the administration’s action to raise the cost estimate of carbon emissions threatened to drive up energy costs while decreasing state revenues from energy production.
EPA: New mail-delivery fleet needs more electric vehicles
In a sharply worded letter, the EPA says the Postal Service plan to make 10% of its next-generation fleet electric “underestimates greenhouse gas emissions, fails to consider more environmentally protective feasible alternatives and inadequately considers impacts on communities with environmental justice concerns.”
White House kicks off webinar series highlighting Federal Sustainability Plan
The initiative comes a month after President Joe Biden issued his Federal Sustainability Plan, an executive order that outlines Biden’s plans to use federal infrastructure to tackle climate change.
By Nathan Strout
Army releases $1B cyber training request
The Army released the request for proposals for the Cyber TRIDENT contract, which includes the Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE).
By Mark Pomerleau
Pentagon rolls out remote work environment in record time
The Pentagon's top IT official discusses the release of the Commercial Virtual Remote Environment.
By Andrew Eversden
Trump proposes sweeping rollback of environmental oversight
Trump’s proposal calls for greatly narrowing the scope of the half-century-old National Environmental Policy Act, which was signed by President Richard Nixon in 1970.
IG: leaders harassed and abused staff at the State Department
Employees described disrespectful and hostile treatment at he hands of leadership for following established procedure and their perceived political inclinations.
By Jessie Bur