The problem started in 2014, when a state-appointed administrator took over and stopped measures which had been used to limit corrosion, sharply increasing peoples' exposure to lead from the old pipes.
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Congress Throws More Money at Removing Immigrants than Most Countries Spend on Their Armies
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Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down
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Be nice if she had made the flip before voting for the bill instead of after
Only enough to get 3 out of 53 Republican Senators to vote against it. That's a few percent. Not enough to stop it, which is what matters
They never really cared about that. The modern anti-abortion movement was dreamed up after pro-segregation churches lost that battle and needed something else to fixate on.
They're not doing anything like dismantling the telescopes; just stopping a tiny instrument that is mounted near them from being used.
The idea is to force people to pay for private forecasts
Im taking this down because its misinfo.
If this bill passes in its current form, yes
Because most of it would show up as having been written by corporate lobbyists
They are trying change things, but there's a good chance basic stuff like measuring CO2 concentrations would continue normally with a nonzero budget
Yes, but the city officials had their boss replaced by state with one who had a mandate to cut spending. Wikipedia does a better job of getting that part right: