Science and Democracy

The partnership between science and democracy is as fragile today as ever before. Our experts keep you informed on the latest developments, from Capitol Hill to local communities.

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July 14, 2025

An Important Lesson for These Times from Environmental Justice’s Earliest Days

Guest Commentary

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July 11, 2025

Danger Season Disasters Hit People Hard Even as NOAA, FEMA Still Under Threat from Trump Administration

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

July 7, 2025

Trump Administration Actions Could Make Hurricane Helene’s Impacts Worse for Asheville

Brady Watson
Senior Campaign Coordinator

A great blue heron catches a white perch on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

Derrick Z. Jackson

July 7, 2025

Administration Cuts Would Leave No Refuge for the Wildlife Refuges

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

Researchers monitor severe weather on their computers

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July 3, 2025

NOAA’s Weather and Climate Science Is Under Relentless Attack from Trump Administration. Will Congress Stand Up for Us?

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

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July 2, 2025

Heatwave Exposes How Trump Administration Cuts Endanger Workers and Energy-Burdened Communities

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

A scientist explains their research on wildfires at a public science fair in New York City in 2023.

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July 1, 2025

Scientists IN Society: From Isolation to Engagement

UCS Science Network

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June 30, 2025

Schedule F by Another Name Is Still a Threat to Science

Joseph Reed
Policy Director, Center for Science and Democracy

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June 26, 2025

We Need Sound Policy Informed by Science. The Trump Administration Is Undermining It.

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

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June 23, 2025

OSTP Has a Choice to Make: Science or Politics?

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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June 18, 2025

What We’re Watching: Coming Historic Heat Plus Acute Risks Could Make Rest of June a Hot Mess

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

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June 13, 2025

In This Knife’s Edge Authoritarian Moment, Say “No Kings” to President Trump

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

President Trump, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials sit at a table in the White House.

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June 12, 2025

Science Under Fire in Washington

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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June 9, 2025

Science Caught in a Rip Tide: How Authoritarianism Sweeps Away Evidence-Based Policy

Melissa L. Finucane
Former Staff

a woman in a lab coat conducts a scientific test outdoors.

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June 5, 2025

Fool’s Gold: The Trump Administration’s New Executive Order Is a Bad-Faith Attack on Science

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

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June 5, 2025

What to Expect When You’re Expecting During Danger Season

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

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May 29, 2025

Trump’s Executive Order Puts Science Under the Thumb of Politics

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

A hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center--an office under NOAA--tracks a developing storm on six separate computer monitors.

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May 22, 2025

One NOAA: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

UCS Science Network

A woman in a lab coat looks through a microscope while three other researchers talk behind her.

Tru Katsunade / Unsplash

May 19, 2025

Federal Science Advisory Committees Are Being Defunded and Dismantled. Here’s a Toolkit to Help Independent Scientists Step Up

Melissa L. Finucane
Former Staff

Julie Joseph/FEMA

May 15, 2025

12,000 Reasons Why the Trump Administration Must Be Stopped from Dismantling FEMA

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin at his congressional confirmation hearing

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May 14, 2025

Seven Questions for EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as He Testifies Before Congress

Chitra Kumar
Managing Director, Climate and Energy Program

A person walks down a flooded and storm-damaged street in Asheville, North Carolina, post Hurricane Helene.

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May 13, 2025

Trump Administration Attempts Burying Climate Change Evidence to Further Fossil Fuel Agenda

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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May 13, 2025

Denial, Restriction and Manipulation: New Trump Administration Targets Voting Rights, Fair Representation

Liza Gordon-Rogers
Research Associate

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May 12, 2025

President Trump’s Elections Executive Order: A Dubious Power Grab

Lisa Van Theemsche
Washington Representative II

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