Bipartisan lawmakers urge NSF to reverse plan dismantling $386M ocean observatory network
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Annika Hammerschlag, Associated Press
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Democratic senators and including Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, has sent letters to the National Science Foundation urging it to reverse its decision to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $386 million ocean monitoring network. House lawmakers have gone further, accusing the NSF of acting illegally in its plan to shut down the project, which provides critical climate and ocean data from buoys and sensors deployed in key locations including off the coast of Martha's Vineyard and in the Pacific.
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· 3 pulledA group of Democratic senators and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees, sent letters Monday to the National Science Foundation asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network.
House lawmakers going further and accusing the agency of acting illegally.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski was among the lawmakers who asked the National Science Foundation to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network.
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