The Commerce Department said on Tuesday that it will cut nearly $4 million in funding to Princeton University’s climate programs it deems are “no longer in keeping” with the Trump administration’s priorities.
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick ordered to stop funding three award programs at the university—the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System, Climate Risks and Interactive Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Predictability, and Advancing Prediction—according to a statement.
Lutnick said those programs are “no longer aligned” with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) current objectives, and ending their funding will lower the cost and size of the federal government….