Sentences with phrase «slashed research budgets»

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Did you not realize that the budget for our national weather service has been «slashed,» our inspectors general have been «weakened,» and other scientific research has been «imperiled?»

Spending decisions ignore evidence in favour of politics, as the horsetrading over plans to slash budgets for scientific research shows

Yet the December 2009 Pre-Budget Report announced that # 600 million would be slashed from higher education and science research budgets by 2012 - 13.

Unfortunately, the Office of Naval Research's budget was recently slashed, and Cranford's project was one of those that landed on the cutting - room floor.

In a widely anticipated move that has already raised alarm bells at research institutes, a White House budget document states that «significant reductions» will come from slashing the overhead payments that NIH now pays to universities on top of the direct research costs for a project.

Sadly, Republicans in the House passed the Ryan budget, which will slash about $ 800 billion in investment in education and skills training, science and technology research and development, and transportation infrastructure between 2013 and 2022.

The White House wants to slash nearly half the budget of EPA's Office of Research and Development, which does most of agency's science work

A recent National Research Council (NRC) report found that NASA's earth science research and analysis budget was slashed 30 % between 2000 aResearch Council (NRC) report found that NASA's earth science research and analysis budget was slashed 30 % between 2000 aresearch and analysis budget was slashed 30 % between 2000 and 2006.

But research budgets everywhere are being slashed, and even with Bill Gates's deep pockets the World Health Organization has barely enough money to do its main job of wiping out wild polio.

They would slash the agency's budget by 31 percent, eliminate 3,200 EPA positions out of about 15,000 and reduce its Office of Research and Development budget by almost half.

It often turns out the ski slope journal club had to be canned, the research budget was slashed last year, and the president is the only one with a fancy car.

Soon after its election in 2010, the governing coalition froze the science budget and slashed capital spending on research infrastructure.

A U.S. biomedical research lobbying group today offered a sliver of solace to fears that Congress will slash science budgets this year.

The Trump administration could slash $ 5.8 billion from the 2018 budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), yet still fund at least as much research by eliminating overhead payments to universities and research institutions, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price told lawmakers this week.

A White House document leaked this week suggests that, along with seeking to slash the EPA's overall budget, the Trump administration will also propose a sharp decrease in research funding and a 20 % reduction in the agency's staff of 15,000.

The Trump administration could slash $ 5.8 billion from the 2018 budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), yet still fund as least as much research by eliminating overhead payments to universities and research institutions, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price told lawmakers today.

An outline of Trump's budget request released this past March was relatively kind to AFRI; although the plan called for slashing many other research budgets — or didn't mention them at all — AFRI was highlighted in a single line that requested $ 350 million for the program.

He is the «vice-chair» of the House Committee on Science (sic), Space (sic) and Technology (sic), which recently proposed slashing NASA's budget for climate change research.

Some of the proposals «highlights» include: (1) fully eliminating the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, slashing the $ 3.2 billion budget, and eliminating proposed advanced nuclear energy technology programs from the Office of Nuclear Energy; (2) eliminating the Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program; (3) cutting $ 1.59 billion from the Office of Science, including the elimination of two of the four Energy Innovation Hubs, elimination of the 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs), elimination of the Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists Program, and a broad range of other cuts to basic energy sciences; (4) eliminating the power marketing administrations; and (5) cutting the administration's FY2012 budget request for ARPA - E from $ 650 million to $ 300 million.

Between a research - gutting proposed budget, regulation - slashing executive orders, the appointment of climate change skeptics to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, and bogus claims about vaccines, infectious diseases, and global warming, it's no secret that President Donald Trump has demonstrated indifference to empirical fact and hostility to the scientific community.

According to documents obtained by the Washington Post, the White House is seeking to slash the budgets by 72 % in fiscal year 2019, which would cut research in fuel efficient vehicles by 82 %, bioenergy technologies by 82 %, advanced manufacturing by 75 %, and solar energy technology by 78 %.

The republican controlled House Energy subcommittee recently passed their appropriations budget where they slashed the DOE renewable energy R&D funding and transferred it to nuclear weapons research.

The 2012 budget cut funding for the measure of industrial emissions, closed an oil spill monitoring facility in British Columbia and a global water quality monitoring centre in Ontario, slashed funding for atmospheric research — resulting, among other things, in the partial closure of a vital research station in the High Arctic — and killed the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, which had been created by the Mulroney government.

According to documents obtained by the Washington Post, the White House is seeking to slash the budgets by 72 % in fiscal year 2019, which would cut research in fuel efficient vehicles by 82 %, bioenergy technologies by 82 %, advanced manufacturing by 75 %,...