Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts

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   AP reported that administration proposals to reduce NOAA operations and expand private weather-data reliance could benefit BGC's weather-derivatives market and Cantor-linked satellite company Satellogic; Lutnick had resigned those businesses, his sons controlled Cantor, and AP reported no evidence that Lutnick designed the proposals for them.

   NOAA reduction proposals, BGC weather market, Satellogic relationship, family control, and no-evidence finding

   Weather privatization plans overlapped Lutnick family market interests · Privatization proposals and family business interests under scrutiny