Project 2025 calls for the ‘break up’ of NOAA, commercialized weather service forecasts

Project 2025, a controversial plan that seeks to inform a future conservative administration, calls for the “break up” of the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA). NOAA houses the National Weather Service. The plan, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, says that the weather service should “fully commercialize its forecasting operations” and focus on providing data…