Storm Clouds Over The Nation's Weather Forecaster

Trump’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is stonewalling turning over records that could show whether Barry Lee Myers, Trump’s nominee to run NOAA, improperly tried to influence the agency after his family’s weather company mistakenly issued a tsunami warning.

Two nonprofits, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Center for Biological Diversity, have filed federal lawsuits seeking records about communications with agency employees.

Myers was first nominated to head NOAA by Trump in October 2017, but the full Senate hasn’t voted on him, in part because of concern about conflicts of interest.

Myers, then the CEO of AccuWeather, was first nominated by Trump in October 2017, but the full Senate didn’t vote on him that year or in 2018, in part because of concern about conflicts of interest involving AccuWeather. Myers resigned as CEO in January, but his family still owns the company.

https://www.dcreport.org/2019/06/28/storm-clouds-over-weather-forecaster-barry-lee-myers/