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July 21, 2026

Research at Risk: The Latest Proposal to Devastate the National Science Foundation

Trump administration proposed changes would destroy what has made NSF great and diminish US as leading scientific superpower.

Kei Koizumi
Senior Advisor

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July 16, 2026

Extreme Heat, Extreme Costs: How Danger Season Exacerbates the Affordability Crisis

Sital Sathia
Energy Justice Research Associate

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July 15, 2026

Unprecedented Earth: Record Super El Niño, Marine Heatwaves, and Heat Domes

Marc Alessi
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July 22, 2026

Update: Attacks on Independent Science and How We’re Fighting Back

Gretchen Goldman
President and CEO of UCS

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July 21, 2026

Research at Risk: The Latest Proposal to Devastate the National Science Foundation

Kei Koizumi
Senior Advisor

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July 16, 2026

Extreme Heat, Extreme Costs: How Danger Season Exacerbates the Affordability Crisis

Sital Sathia
Energy Justice Research Associate

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July 15, 2026

Unprecedented Earth: Record Super El Niño, Marine Heatwaves, and Heat Domes

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

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July 15, 2026

Science Is Under Attack. But Scientists Are Speaking Up

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

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July 15, 2026

What Election Data Transparency Is and What It Should Never Be

Liza Gordon-Rogers
Research Associate

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July 13, 2026

Midwest’s Blowout Year of Storms, Power Outages Is a Window into Its Climate-Changed Future; We Must Heed It

Rachel Licker
Former UCS Staff

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July 9, 2026

Big Temps, Big Storms, and Climate Change: Talking About Extreme Event Attribution

Carly Phillips
Senior Scientist

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July 9, 2026

Ask a Scientist: How is Rural California Anticipating and Building Resilience to Climate Change?

Guest Commentary

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July 8, 2026

How Attribution Science Uses Models to Uncover Climate Change’s Effects on Weather

Carlos Javier Martinez
Senior Scientist

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July 8, 2026

Scope 3 on Trial: What it Means For Corporate Climate Accountability

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

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July 7, 2026

Envisioning Federal Scientific Integrity as a Tool to Protect Democracy and Fight Corruption

Gretchen Goldman
President and CEO of UCS

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July 6, 2026

Why the EPA Is Attacking California’s Clean Car Standards (Again)

David Reichmuth
Research Director, Clean Transportation Program

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July 6, 2026

Megafires, Land Use, and Climate Change

UCS Science Network

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June 30, 2026

A New Way to Uncover How Science Is Under Attack

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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June 25, 2026

FEMA Review Council Report, Like President Trump, Is Out of Touch with Reality

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

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June 24, 2026

The American Project Has Never Been Perfect. It’s Still Worth Fighting For.

Gretchen Goldman
President and CEO of UCS

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June 24, 2026

A Year in, the Trump Administration is Exercising “Gold Standard” Suppression of Science

UCS Science Network

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June 18, 2026

Louisiana v Callais Broke the System. Here’s How We Fix It

Joseph Reed
Policy Director, Center for Science and Democracy

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June 18, 2026

Dear Doomer: Hope is a Discipline

Sital Sathia
Energy Justice Research Associate

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June 17, 2026

President Trump’s Coal Bailouts Lock-In Higher Costs, Forestall Real Solutions

Julie McNamara
Federal Energy Policy Director

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June 16, 2026

Cómo podemos aprovechar el enorme potencial solar en las comunidades de justicia ambiental de Massachusetts

Paula Garcia
Senior Manager of Energy Justice Research and Policy

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June 15, 2026

Despite It All: Watching US Wind and Solar’s Amazing Progress

John Rogers
Associate Director, Energy Analytics

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June 11, 2026

Colorado Takes a Big Step Forward for EV Battery Recycling

Jessica Dunn
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