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2 days ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Sullivan |Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |Lauren Rosenthal
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a congressional committee that the US National Hurricane Center was fully staffed even though key positions are going unfilled as hurricane season begins. “There are no openings on the National Hurricane Center. Zero,” Lutnick said during a Senate Appropriations Committee meeting Wednesday. “We are fully staffed. We are fully ready for hurricane season.”Yet the center’s website shows at least four meteorologist roles are vacant.
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2 days ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Lauren Rosenthal |Brian Sullivan
Wildfire smoke from blazes burning in the Canadian prairie has drifted across New York and Chicago, contributing to air-quality alerts that warn of breathing problems for children and older adults. Environmental agencies in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine issued safety advisories that are in effect from 11 a.m. local time Wednesday into late evening.
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3 days ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Lauren Rosenthal |Brian Sullivan
Wildfire smoke from blazes burning in the Canadian prairie has drifted across New York, contributing to air-quality alerts that warn of breathing problems for children and older adults. Environmental agencies in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine issued safety advisories that are in effect from 11 a.m. local time Wednesday into late evening.
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3 days ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Lauren Rosenthal |Brian Sullivan
Wildfire smoke from blazes burning in the Canadian prairie has drifted across New York, contributing to air-quality alerts that warn of breathing problems for children and older adults. Environmental agencies in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine issued safety advisories that are in effect from 11 a.m. local time Wednesday into late evening.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Brian Sullivan |Naureen Malik
A spring heat wave is descending on the central US, sending temperatures soaring over the next few days from the Canadian border to Texas. Austin, Texas, is forecast to reach 104F (40C) Tuesday and 107 Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Minneapolis is forecast to reach 89F Tuesday. More than 130 daily high temperature records may either be broken or tied, according to the weather service. In Texas, the heat will last until next week.
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3 weeks ago | 
seattletimes.com | Brian Sullivan |Lauren Rosenthal
Extreme weather is an increasingly expensive problem in the U.S. Last year, fires, droughts and storms caused more than $182 billion in damages — but going forward, the federal government won’t be keeping track.
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1 month ago | 
news.bgov.com | Lauren Rosenthal |Brian Sullivan
Weather analysis tools used by a wide array of businesses and government entities across the US have gone dark after funding for long-running regional climate hubs lapsed. The websites for four US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration regional centers serving 27 states across the central and southern US — including Texas, Florida, Ohio, the Dakotas and the Carolinas — are no longer accessible, according to service notifications posted on the centers’ home pages.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Lauren Rosenthal |Brian Sullivan
Weather analysis tools used by a wide array of businesses and government entities across the US have gone dark after funding for long-running regional climate hubs lapsed. The websites for four US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration regional centers serving 27 states across the central and southern US — including Texas, Florida, Ohio, the Dakotas and the Carolinas — are no longer accessible, according to service notifications posted on the centers’ home pages.
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2 months ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Sullivan |Mary Hui |Joe Wertz
First came a dry spell that parched the land, then a spark, followed by some wind. Suddenly, swaths of South Carolina were consumed by voracious flames. More than 100 fires ignited in the state last weekend — an unusually high total even in the heart of fire season. It was the perfect combination of arid air, dry fuels and gusting winds that combined to spread the flames, said Doug Wood, a spokesman for the state’s Forestry Commission.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Lauren Rosenthal |Brian Sullivan |Ari Natter
The Trump administration fired hundreds of employees at the top US agency overseeing weather prediction and climate research, raising concerns about the nation’s preparedness amid wildfire and tornado warnings. The cuts affect the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the National Weather Service and a vast observational system that supplies free data to commercial forecasters.
