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	"author_name": "Lever Actions",
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	"title": "TELL YOUR REPS: Stop Trump’s privatization of our weather service.",
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	"description": "As reported recently by The Lever’s investigative journalists, the National Weather Service is being turned into a for-profit subscription scheme. That means Americans could soon pay out of pocket for life-saving weather forecasts amid ever-worsening climate disasters. Amid major budget cuts to government services, Trump’s plans to privatize weather forecasting could prove a boon for the multibillion-dollar private weather industry — including some major players in the president’s orbit. Since 1870, the National Weather Service has provided weather data, forecasts, and alerts to the public. But recently, the agency has been targeted for privatization. That includes Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s archconservative blueprint for gutting the federal bureaucracy, which called for “break[ing] up” the agency behind the National Weather Service and “fully commercializ[ing] its forecasting operations.” Those effort are now underway thanks to Trump’s pick to oversee the agency, a former industry scientist who supports Trump’s budget cuts and argued before Congress that the National Weather Service should “rely more heavily” on private companies. Privatizing the weather service could limit climate scientists’ ability to access reliable weather information — and make it harder for everyone else to stay safe in climate emergencies. Imagine private companies looking for price-gouging opportunities as a hurricane looms on the horizon. As recent weather disasters have shown, we cannot allow our national weather services to be hollowed out. Weather monitoring is a public good that keeps us all safe — not another profit center. Tell your representatives that they must do everything in their power to protect the National Weather Service.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/92130a7de7712ceb15a67381229477956ace164a"
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