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December 16, 2025

The Exploding Scope of the Military-Industrial Complex

Members of both major political parties have begun to question ballooning defense expenditures, which have almost tripled since the 1990s.

Sean Manning
Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow

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December 16, 2025

The Generations of Public Service We Lost in 2025

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December 15, 2025

Disinformation Undermines Our Right to Science

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May 21, 2025

Wildfires Are Getting Worse. Trump’s Science Cuts Could Threaten Our Response.

Carly Phillips
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May 20, 2025

How Much Transit Investment Is Needed to Get Back to “Normal”?

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May 19, 2025

What Are Distributed Energy Resources?

Lee Shaver
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May 19, 2025

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

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May 15, 2025

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

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May 15, 2025

Indirect Source Rules: An Emerging Route Toward Clean Freight

Sam Wilson
Senior Vehicles Analyst

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May 15, 2025

Ask an Expert: How Strong is the Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud?

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The Deceit Playbook: Fossil Fuel Interests Target Opponents with Intimidation Campaigns

Kathy Mulvey
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May 14, 2025

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

Chitra Kumar
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New Evidence Strengthens the Case for Climate Accountability

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May 14, 2025

Fossil Fuel Lobbying: 100+ Days and Six Decades of Deception

Laura Peterson
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May 14, 2025

Climate Accountability: The Antidote to Decades of Fossil Fuel Industry Deceit

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

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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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What Is a Just Land Transition?

Amanda Fencl
Director of Climate Science, Climate and Energy

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May 13, 2025

Putting Science to Work for Security: A Call to Prevent Nuclear Testing

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May 13, 2025

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

Liza Gordon-Rogers
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May 12, 2025

Why Does Toyota Oppose Clean Air?

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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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May 8, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Attacking the Science in the National Environmental Policy Act

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

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May 8, 2025

The State of Science at 100 Days: Co-Opted, Hindered, and Undermined

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A Cruel Tradeoff: Building the “Amazon of Deportation” While Tearing Down Health and Human Services

Derrick Z. Jackson
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How Science and Advocacy Ended Dangerous Nuclear Testing in the United States

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4 Ways the Trump Administration Is Making Danger Season Worse this Year

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