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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s leading climate protection authorities, was instructed to determine grants related to global warming and other topics that are addressed by President Trump’s executive orders and the fears that these subsidies are at risk to be canceled.

The instructions were granted on Thursday at the instruction of the trade department, which includes the NOAA, according to a copy of the document shown by the New York Times. The NOAA employees received an list of all “active financial assistant prices” in the NOAA and demanded that these grants could “potentially influence” one of the commands of Mr. Trump.

One of the guidelines in question, which Mr. Trump signed on the day of his office, is aimed at destroying programs on the Federal Government that deal with climate change. Based on this order, the NOAA employees were instructed to search their existing grants for terms, which include the “climate resorts”, “climate crisis”, “clean energy”, “environmental quality” and “pollution”.

Noaa is not expressly mentioned in the executive regulations. But project 2025, the political blueprint created by the Heritage Foundation, which is reflected in many of the measures previously taken by the Trump administration, NOAA calls “one of the main drivers of the alarm industry of climate change”. The document urges NOAA to be dismantled and some of his programs are terminated. And it requires the privatization of the national weather service, a NOAA department. Project 2025 was written by many people who now have a high -ranking role in the administration.

In addition to research on atmospheric science, NOAA finances scientific work through the oceans, the Arctic, the forest fires and more. The agency also operates satellites, provides weather data, predicts the path of the hurricanes and regulates the offshore fishing.

The Revelation in the past week follows the demand for the determination of climate medical subsidies that members of the government of the government cited by Elon Musk had received access to the computer systems from NOAA. The Democrats sent a letter to Mr. Trump’s choice for trade, Howard Lutnick, and asked him to defend NOAA against Mr. Musk’s “illegal attacks”.

On Tuesday, environmentalists, legislators and other NOAA supporters are to hold a rally for the agency outside the trade department. The goal “is to ensure that the American public knows that a critical agency that works for them is attacked by President Trump and Elon Musk” the organizers of the rally.

Senator Chris van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, is said to speak at the rally.

“Elon Musks reported that the air-conditioned work at NOAA is another example of AMOK’s anti-scientific ideology run,” said Van Hollen in a statement. “It is also a payout for the large oil companies and climate change -deniers who cheer on Trump and Musk.”

The demand for the identification of climate -based grants within the NOAA was first reported by Axios. A spokesman for Noaa did not answer a request for comments.

While previous administrations have asked inquiries about the climate information and other data from NOAA, the current search is far more comprehensive and examines climate research, reduction and adaptation.

“I am concerned that such a search threatens important programs to protect communities from extreme weather and other climatic disasters,” said Rick Spinrad, who headed the NOAA during the bid administration. “Last year we had almost $ 30 billion disasters of climate medical events. Will these be compromised? Is that the intention of the administration? “

Andrew Rosenberg, another former high -ranking civil servant in the NOAA, said the decision to check existing grants due to their compliance with Mr. Trump’s executive commands is inappropriate.

A scholarship is a contract between NOAA and the group that receives this money, said Dr. Rosenberg. It can be canceled if the grant receiver does not meet the conditions of this contract, he added or because the financing is no longer available.

However, the cancellation of a grant due to the change in the political priorities is unfair to the scholarship holders, he said.

“Suppose I am writing a proposal for a NOAA scholarship today,” said Dr. Rosenberg. “I should predict what the next five executive commands will say today? How would I know? “

Noaa’s climate information goes beyond scientific research. In American Samoa, Climate Ready Workforce, a 60 million dollar -noaa subsidy, has already spent around 100,000 US dollars through its financial sponsor, the University of Hawaii. So far, it has financed two employee positions and a trainer to provide the technical certification for 25 employees of the island’s sole supply company who are responsible for providing power supply, cleaning of garbage and the management of drinking water.

The US territory had water problems due to the rising sea level and the extreme weather due to climate change. It received a scholarship of almost 1.8 million US dollars to train around 100 current and future supply employees on the island instead of traveling to the mainland.

Kelley Anderson Tagarino, an American Samoa resident and community consultant at the Hawaii Sea Grant program, said she was trying to push ahead in a moment of increasing fear. The program promotes research at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii.

“There were concerns that there would be changes, but so far there have been no instructions, so we are said to just continue,” she said. “The message was mostly:” This is a lot of chaos.