An environmental group has created an interactive tool that maps every NOAA facility in the country.
The new interactive mapping tool from the Environmental Defense Fund is based on NOAA’s own inventory of its operations and facilities and comes as Congress considers a fiscal 2026 budget proposal from the Trump administration. The proposal would slash the agency by 27 percent. Congress is seeking less steep cuts but lawmakers have yet to come to agreement.
Those potential cuts, combined with the Trump administration’s elimination of more than 2,000 NOAA employees through firings and volunteer separations, could lead to the closure of dozens of agency facilities that provide baseline science to support climate and weather observation and forecasting, fisheries management and conservation, and ocean health, EDF said.
The data collection and mapping tool will help ensure that 735 agency offices, laboratories and research stations are publicly documented as the administration begins a dramatic overhaul of the agency. The accumulated value of the work done in those facilities is substantial, according to EDF.
