{"id":40828,"date":"2025-05-07T11:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/trump-administration-to-stop-us-research-on-space-pollution-in-boon-to-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:21:30","slug":"trump-administration-to-stop-us-research-on-space-pollution-in-boon-to-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/trump-administration-to-stop-us-research-on-space-pollution-in-boon-to-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration to stop US research on space pollution, in boon to Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX and Starlink owner may benefit from Trump cuts to projects that could have led to regulations and costs<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> is poised to kill federal research into pollution from satellites and rockets, including some caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s space companies, raising new conflict-of-interest questions about the billionaire SpaceX and Starlink owner.<\/p>\n<p>The pollution appears to be accumulating in the stratosphere at alarming levels. Some fear it could destroy the ozone layer, potentially expose some people to higher levels of ultraviolet radiation or help further destabilize the earth\u2019s climate during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\">climate crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/07\/space-pollution-elon-musk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX and Starlink owner may benefit from Trump cuts to projects that could have led to regulations and costs The Trump administration is poised to kill federal research into pollution from satellites and rockets, including some caused by Elon Musk\u2019s space companies, raising new conflict-of-interest questions about the billionaire SpaceX and Starlink owner. The pollution &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration to stop US research on space pollution, in boon to Elon Musk\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/trump-administration-to-stop-us-research-on-space-pollution-in-boon-to-elon-musk\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration to stop US research on space pollution, in boon to Elon Musk\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}