Major universities are finding that the Trump administration will no longer fund pet projects to the tune of multiple millions of dollars.
According to Fox News, Princeton University is losing $4 million in grants that funded climate research projects.
Meanwhile, The New York Times is reporting that Cornell University has had $1 billion in funds frozen and Northwestern University has had $790 million frozen.
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According to a news release from the Department of Commerce, several National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-funded programs at Princeton “are no longer in keeping with the Trump administration’s priorities.”
A cooperative agreement funding the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System I was zapped because it “promotes exaggerated and implausible climate threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as ‘climate anxiety,’ which
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