Many of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), an American federal agency, which monitors and modeling the oceans and the atmosphere to predict changes in the climate and weather, has received an order of fleeting to stop communicating with foreigners, including Wired people who work directly, with the US government.
The internal E -Mail obtained by Wired shows that the National Marine Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Noaa has received orders to stop “all international commitment”. (Emphasizes them.) The message states that orders include participation in international commissions, and even E -Maile “with foreigners”.
The e-mail also instructs NMFS employees-re-agreed to promote the protection of maritime life and sustainable development of American sea fruit sources-to present details of all work with international partners on verification by the higher, including those in the US Department of Trade, Noaa, Noaa, Noaa Umbrella agency .
Noaa and the Trade Department did not immediately answer requests for comment. The motive of the commands inspiring is not immediately clear, nor is it clear how long they will last.
According to the source with the knowledge of Operations, NMFS granted anonymity, because – as with other sources in this story – they were not authorized to talk to the press, Noaa officials discussed at the meeting on Wednesday, feel by Trump’s administration, saying that their works are faces. “Huge exhibition” due to wind projects at sea and participation In international wind energy workshops, conferences and peaks.
For example, the agency expected to organize international scholarship holders and interns this summer working group Founded by the International Council of the Sea Exploration, the world’s oldest scientific organization.
President Donald Trump published executive order On the first day of office designed to paralyze wind energy. In the interagulation speech, He said rally: “We are not going to make winds.”
According to another source in Noaa, orders inspire include the national environmental satellite, data and information service. In addition to collecting data from the entire federal government, NESDIS is based on a wide range of international partners. Nesdis weather and climate data are necessary not only for the safety of air transport, but also to combat drought, monitoring the destruction of coral reefs and the protection of rail transport carriers against risky weather.
According to Nesdis websiteIt works closely with the European Space Agency, which provides access to data via the Sentinel Satellite collection run by Eumetsat, an international weather monitoring agency of over 30 Member States.
Wired informed on Wednesday that NOAA officials were ordered to order Nikhil Rajpal, a former Twitter employee who seems not to have specialist knowledge in the field of ocean and atmospheric sciences, the power of editing documents regarding the work of the Host Agency by Google. Orders, according to sources, come from the secretary of trade Jeremy Pelter.
Government documents show that Rajpal now has e -mail addresses with the task group of the government department Noaa and Elon Musk. Wired also found out that Rajpal is mentioned as an “expert” in a letter in the Office of Personnel Management, the Government Department of Human Resources, in which Doge employees installed information gathering information about federal employees that were used for multiple communication of administration administration program.
Noaa was a popular goal of conservatives, many of whom called on various functions that were dismantled or privatized.