Read the whole package here. This week, Donald Trump nominated Neil Jacobs, the former NOAA head involved in “Sharpiegate,” to lead the agency. Below, McLean explains what he anticipates for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, turning to the man who was his acting NOAA chief in 2019 when Trump ...

Bringing NOAA to heel was an expressed goal of Project 2025, which has described the agency as “one of the main drivers of ...

The ensuing controversy, known as Sharpiegate, was a harbinger of the fact-optional, seat-of-his-pants approach to disaster management Trump would later apply to the Covid-19 pandemic, with ...

who was acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2019 when President Trump altered an expected hurricane impact map — an incident known as "Sharpie-gate ...

President Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs, a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) official involved in the “Sharpiegate” episode during Trump’s first term ...

President Donald Trump has named Neil Jacobs, an atmospheric scientist who was found to have violated scientific integrity policies during the “Sharpiegate” scandal of the first Trump ...

NOAA For those who forgot “Sharpiegate,” in his first term, President Trump erroneously claimed Hurricane Dorian was going to Alabama. When the National Weather Service corrected the mistake, the ...

President Donald Trump has again tapped weather scientist Neil Jacobs to run NOAA. President Donald Trump’s choice to lead NOAA has the scientific chops to run the nation’s primary climate and ...

Donald Trump has announced that an atmospheric scientist at the center of the infamous “Sharpiegate” controversy will lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Jacobs was later ...

Neil Jacobs, then the assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction, stands next to a chart during a briefing with President Donald Trump on the 2020 hurricane ...

That eventually drew criticism of Jacobs and his political higher-ups in a Department of Commerce inspector general's report on Sharpiegate. Advertisement Article continues below this ad NOAA ...