Will the US re-enter Paris under a changed administration in future?
How does it plan to align its climate action with other nations?
to take climate change seriously.
There’s already been a cut of about 11 per cent in the 2018 budget for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the umbrella organisation to delegate various science initiatives, including climate R&D.
Naturally, cuts on NSF supports cascade on all forms of US environment and healthcare research.
Even support for EPA ‘superfund sites’ (one of the EPA’s hallmark programs aimed at cleaning-up hazardous waste sites) will take a nosedive by about 25 per cent in the new budget plan.
How will it affect the vast workforce engaged in various research projects in and outside the US?
The USGS is among the global leaders of its kind in geologic and environmental research spanning across disciplines.
The question is, under the present circumstances, how many water resources research studies will receive federal support?
Or land use change-GHG emission?