A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's effort to revoke the supercomputer access of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The ruling allows NCAR to continue using its facilities while legal proceedings are ongoing.
The ruling prevents an immediate disruption to critical climate and weather research conducted by NCAR, highlighting ongoing legal challenges to administrative actions impacting scientific facilities.
A federal judge, R. Brooke Jackson, has temporarily halted an effort by the Trump administration to revoke the supercomputer access of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR, based in Boulder, Colorado, is a Federally-Funded Research and Development Center managed by the University Consortium for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) for the National Science Foundation. In December, the administration ordered UCAR to prepare to transfer the supercomputing facility in Wyoming to a different operator. UCAR subsequently sued the government, and on Monday, obtained a preliminary injunction that places the transfer on hold, allowing NCAR to continue its research into weather, climate, and atmospheric chemistry.
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