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Trump picks Neil Jacobs, known for "Sharpie-gate" incident, to head NOAA

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Neil Jacobs was acting administrator of NOAA in 2019 when President Trump incorrectly tweeted that Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian .

A report by a panel of the National Academy of Public Administration for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found Jacobs "engaged in misconduct intentionally, knowingly, or in reckless disregard of the Code of Scientific Conduct".

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