Senate Democrats want to revive a NOAA database that tracked billion

Senate Democrats are seeking to revive a database that had tracked billion-dollar climate and weather disasters for decades, until it was retired by the Trump administration this May. NOAA had kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage in the U.S. since 1980, but the agency halted the project this spring, as the Trump administration cut back climate science research at government agencies. The database, and annual reports drawn from it, offered useful ill