Previous versions of the assessment have warned Americans about the danger of rising temperatures, increased flooding or deadly wildfires. Drawing on hundreds of peer-reviewed studies, they show how warming temperatures are quickly changing some parts of the country. These assessments are used to help inform infrastructure spending, planning and risk mitigation. Shortly after the program was created in 1990, one of its early successes was to reveal how a depleted ozone layer harmed Americans, which led to regulations that addressed the issue.
It remains to be seen how the Trump administration will approach the newly reconstituted office. But White House Budget Director Russ Vought has long viewed it as a source of “climate alarmism” that the White House should have more control over, as he wrote in the Project 2025 conservative policy handbook organized by the Heritage Foundation…
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