The move raises doubts about the future of the review required by Congress for more than three decades, climate scientists and environmental groups said.

The Trump administration has sued the state of Michigan, seeking to prevent it from suing major oil companies over the role they have played in causing climate change, saying the Democratic-led state was standing in the way of domestic energy production.

Reporters spoke at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Tempe about how weather reporting is adapting in response to climate change.