| Petition to Congress: We urge you to take all steps within your power to fight the Trump administration's plans to privatize key weather services, like those handled by the National Weather Service. |
Trump's plan to privatize the National Weather Service (NWS) is straight from Project 2025. It's another attack on government services in order to make Trump's cronies richer while the rest of us pay.
Elon Musk's SpaceX is one of the companies that stands to make a profit. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick left his sons in charge of his former financial firm, which would also benefit from Trump's dangerous privatization scheme. And two of Trump's nominees for the agency that oversees NWS have ties to the multibillion-dollar private weather industry.
If Trump succeeds, people facing climate disasters who need access to reliable forecasts will be out of luck unless they have the money to fork over to Trump's corporate loyalists. We need Congress to stop Trump's privatization plan for yet another government agency.
Sign the petition: Don't let Trump privatize the National Weather Service. Protect government services from a corporate takeover!
Trump's DOGE cuts to the weather service earlier this year have made it harder to accurately predict, respond to, and keep people safe from extreme weather events like this summer's deadly floods in Texas.
Now that the White House has gutted NWS, it's ready to turn the public good into a corporate money-making machine.
Privatizing the weather service could limit climate scientists' ability to access reliable weather information — and make it harder for everyone else to stay safe during increasingly severe weather emergencies. Imagine private companies looking for price-gouging opportunities as a hurricane looms on the horizon.
Our lawmakers must do everything in their power to protect the public's access to the weather report.
Sign the petition: NO to another Trump corporate takeover. Protect the National Weather Service!
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