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March 25, 2025

The EPA’s Research Office Launched My Career. Now It’s in Danger.

The EPA’s research office is a gold standard for science in service of public good. We must fight to save it.

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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March 24, 2025

The Illegal Trump Scheme to Have Agencies Obliterate Critical Rules and Safeguards

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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March 24, 2025

With Fewer Weather Balloons, People in US Heartland Will Be Less Prepared for Tornado Season

Marc Alessi
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March 25, 2025

My City Got Disaster Recovery Money, Now What?

Zoe Middleton
Associate Director of Just Climate Resilience

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March 25, 2025

The EPA’s Research Office Launched My Career. Now It’s in Danger.

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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March 25, 2025

The California Legislature: Where Global Warming is Real and Science Still Matters

Daniel Barad
Western States Policy Manager

Officer Candidate Alexander Chrisco/Arkansas National Guard

March 24, 2025

With Fewer Weather Balloons, People in US Heartland Will Be Less Prepared for Tornado Season

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

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March 24, 2025

EPA Staff Stand Firm As Administration Lobs Cuts, Baseless Accusations, and Cruelty

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

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March 24, 2025

The Illegal Trump Scheme to Have Agencies Obliterate Critical Rules and Safeguards

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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March 21, 2025

Our Environmental Movement Outrageously SLAPPed in the Face

Kate Cell
Senior Climate Campaign Manager

NOAA

March 21, 2025

The Theft, Harm, and Presidential Grift of Privatizing the National Weather Service

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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March 20, 2025

The Threats to Higher Education: A Call to Action

Melissa L. Finucane
Vice President of Science & Innovation

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March 19, 2025

What Is a Climate Model and How Does It Work?

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

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March 19, 2025

One Month of RFK Jr.: Empty “MAHA” Promises Hide Attacks on Public Health

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

Chicago Mayor's Office

March 19, 2025

Transportation Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies and Disdain for the Public Firsthand.

Steven Higashide
Clean Transportation Program Director

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March 18, 2025

The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Lasting Imprint on Global Sea Levels

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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March 18, 2025

The Infuriating Story Told by the Corporate and National Carbon Emissions Data

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

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March 18, 2025

How Major Carbon Producers Drive Sea Level Rise and Climate Injustice

Shaina Sadai
Former Hitz Fellow

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March 18, 2025

Ask a Scientist: What’s the Future for Trucks?

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March 17, 2025

How Do ‘Future Climate Scenarios’ Shape Climate Science and Inform Policy?

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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March 17, 2025

Why I Don’t Buy Data Centers’ Claims They Can Leapfrog Over Utilities

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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March 13, 2025

The User-Pay Myth: We ALL Pay for Our Roads, Not Just Drivers

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

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March 13, 2025

What Does Science Have to Do with the Price of Eggs?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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March 13, 2025

Whose House? Our House. Why We Must Fight the Theft and Butchering of Our Federal Agencies

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

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March 12, 2025

The Long History of Climate Models

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

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March 12, 2025

A Hundred Attacks and Counting: What Happened to Federal Science in February

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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March 10, 2025

We Are Charting a Path for Science in the Trump Era

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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