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Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring System

The reversal comes after the Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to block the removal of deep-sea monitoring instruments.

© Darlene Trew Crist/WHOI, via Associated Press

A data-collecting buoy off the Carolina coast. The National Science Foundation was planning to begin removing hundreds of ocean instruments that measure ocean data this month.
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Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration's dismantling of a $386 million ocean observatory project

Monday's pushback against the Republican administration's actions comes as scientists are set to remove instruments from the Pacific and as an El Niño event is predicted to arrive this summer.

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