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Lawsuit challenges Trump admin's plan to dismantle country’s largest climate research lab
- Universities filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle NCAR, the nation’s leading climate and weather research center.
- UCAR argues the restructuring would damage climate research and cites a broader campaign of retaliation against Colorado.
- The suit alleges gag orders, funding cancellations and new reporting requirements imposed on NCAR by federal agencies.
- The filing seeks court action to halt transfers of NCAR’s supercomputing facility and canceling a NOAA grant.
- NCAR supports vital work in hurricane forecasting, wildfire monitoring, weather prediction and space weather research.
- UCAR described government actions as posing a direct threat to national security, public safety and economic prosperity.
- The lawsuit notes NCAR’s Boulder campus and a Wyoming-based supercomputing facility as affected assets.
- The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
- UCAR represents colleges and universities that operate NCAR, employing about 1,400 people.
- The case centers on the administration’s December plan to break up NCAR, which the suit argues would hurt national research leadership.
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