Guest Commentary

Guest authors bring their insights to The Equation, providing commentary on a broad range of issues that connect to our work. Views expressed here belong to the authors, not UCS.

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September 3, 2024

Climate Plans for Aging US Must Focus on Higher Risks to Older Adults

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September 3, 2024

Safety and Equity Must be Central to Battery Storage Development.

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August 13, 2024

Ask A Scientist: What Energy Solutions to the Climate Crisis Are Within Reach?

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July 16, 2024

Ask a Scientist: What Happens When Sea Level Rise Comes for Public Housing?

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July 8, 2024

The True Intent of Overturning Chevron: Stifle Agency Rulemaking

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July 1, 2024

An Investigation into Public Participation Motivated by Memories and a Connection to Home

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May 20, 2024

Farmers Are Looking to the 2023 Farm Bill for Transformational Agriculture Reform

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May 9, 2024

Stopping the Spread of Misinformation: Is Psychological Inoculation the Key?

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January 23, 2024

An Equitable Energy Transition in California Will Take All of Our Voices

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October 4, 2023

Fighting to Help Black People—and Others—Keep Their Land

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September 27, 2023

Protecting Science from Politics

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September 21, 2023

Energy Equity: How Can Power Utilities Get It Right?

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September 7, 2023

How Do Electric Grid Operators Warn Us About Extreme Heat?

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August 15, 2023

My Reason for Not Watching Oppenheimer (A Perspective from Hiroshima)

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August 11, 2023

A Deadly Love Affair: New Mexico, Physics, and the Film Oppenheimer

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Gretchen Goldman/UCS

June 27, 2023

EPA Must Protect Communities from Sterilizer Plants’ Carcinogenic Emissions

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April 27, 2023

Los agricultores esperan que el Proyecto de Ley Agrícola del 2023 sea una reforma que transforme la agricultura

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A man holding a sign that reads, "Black Votes Matter"

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November 4, 2022

Disinformation: A Racist Tactic, from Slave Revolts to Elections

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April 27, 2022

Michigan Can Transition to 100-Percent Renewable Energy by 2035, Save Lives, and Create Jobs

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April 27, 2022

Michigan puede hacer la transición al 100% de energía renovable para 2035, salvar vidas y crear empleos

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April 25, 2022

Remembering Our Nation’s Fallen Workers

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March 28, 2022

Strategic Ambiguity

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Natalie Stites Means

March 17, 2022

The COVID-19 Pandemic in Lakota Country and a Mighty Community Response

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US Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

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March 1, 2022

It’s About Damn Time to Have a Black Woman on the US Supreme Court

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