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Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Here's our roundup of today's top stories. It's Tuesday, April 29th.

Starting with, the Trump administration has put a climate study that's mandated by Congress on hold.

Hundreds of scientists who were co-authoring the latest national climate assessment got word yesterday that their services were no longer needed.

University of Washington's senior scientist Mead Crosby was one of them.

I was hugely disappointed because it's an honor to be able to serve the country in this way to help protect our communities from these impacts that we're already feeling

that are getting worse. The National Climate Assessment is put out every four years by

scientific experts who volunteer their services. The report sums up the impacts of a hotter climate

on each region of the United States and what people can do about it. The Global Change Research

Program oversees the work.

That federal agency did not respond to requests for comment. Trump has falsely called climate

change a hoax, while his top environment official recently said it's a religion.

And that's not the end of news on federal cuts today. The Trump administration is getting sued over two other executive orders. One seeks to save AmeriCorps. Washington's Attorney General has joined a multi-state lawsuit suing the Trump administration for dismantling AmeriCorps. Most AmeriCorps staffers were put on paid administrative leave last week.

23 attorneys general and the states of Kentucky and Pennsylvania are suing, saying Trump's order

illegally guts a program that directly addresses education, public safety, and the environment in

local communities. And Washington Head Start programs are seeking to block the

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