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Federal legislation introduced jointly by U.S. Sens. Tim Sheehy, R-Montana, and Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, seeks to establish a fire weather program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Deep cuts at the nation’s weather agency could put Arizonans at risk by hampering forecasts for haboobs, monsoon season rain storms, flash flooding and wildfires.

Colorado Democrats are seeking answers from President Donald Trump’s administration about its “dismantling” of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.