issuing it after political pressure. No one was disciplined, and Jacobs and Roberts disputed the findings. Roberts left NOAA for another high-ranking job in the Department of Commerce. In a ...

FEMA and NOAA have become politicized as the frequency ... it doesn’t respect our political boundaries and it doesn’t respect our state boundaries,” he said. “We need centralized federal ...

Two days later, without McLean's knowledge, the leadership at NOAA released a statement ... backing Mr. Trump was "driven by external political pressure," through a "request from the White House ...

The intrigue: NOAA's ocean observation networks ... Friction point: Jacobs faced political pressure during his previous tenure, having been reprimanded for his role in the "Sharpiegate ...

Jacobs was also cited for misconduct after the "Sharpiegate" incident, in which he and other Trump-appointed NOAA officials were found to have exerted pressure on scientists to alter the forecast ...

He then became a senior adviser at NOAA and senior policy adviser at the White House. That’s where he worked to ensure that the Trump White House’s political views influenced the inner ...

That eventually drew criticism of Jacobs and his political higher-ups in a Department of Commerce inspector general's report on Sharpiegate. NOAA oversees the National Weather Service, National ...