In December, the Trump administration's unexpected order to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a crucial facility in Boulder, Colorado, and transfer its Wyoming supercomputing center to a different operator has been temporarily halted. The University Consortium for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages NCAR, sued the government and secured a preliminary injunction. UCAR argued that the government, while soliciting public feedback, had already communicated its decision to transfer stewardship of the supercomputing center before the public comment period closed. U.S. District Judge Brooke Jackson agreed that the court could address the Administrative Procedures Act issue, ruling that the government's actions provided grounds for the suit, thereby blocking the transfer for now.