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July 7, 2025

Administration Cuts Would Leave No Refuge for the Wildlife Refuges

The second Trump administration is going for the jugular, to choke conservation itself. Federal budget cuts to conservation science, pollution prevention, and climate change data could imperil wildlife refuges.

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

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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

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October 11, 2018

Scientists Cut Out of EPA’s Particulate Pollution Standard Setting

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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October 11, 2018

Sidelining Science Hurts Children

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

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October 10, 2018

With The Farm Bill Expired, Will Science Stall?

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

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October 10, 2018

Three Reasons Bernard McNamee is a Horrible Choice for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

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October 10, 2018

Clean Transportation Technologies Can Cut Emissions and Save Northeast Over $1 Trillion in Reduced Spending on Oil.

Daniel Gatti
Former contributor

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October 9, 2018

Half a Degree of Warming Could be the Difference Between Survival and Extinction for Many Species

Adam Markham
Former Staff

NASA

October 9, 2018

Hurricane Michael Threatens Gulf Coast Homes and Military Bases

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

October 8, 2018

The IPCC Gets Real about the 1.5°C Target

Peter Frumhoff
Former Director of Science and Policy and Chief Climate Scientist

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October 8, 2018

On Indigenous People’s Day, a Look at the Movement to Revive Native Foodways and How Western Science Might Support—For a Change

Ricardo Salvador
Former Contributor

October 5, 2018

Pathways to 1.5C: Carbon Budget in the IPCC Special Report

Brenda Ekwurzel
Director of Scientific Excellence

As the IPCC report will make clear, when it comes to climate change, we are all in the same boat. Photo taken by the author at COP23 in Bonn, Germany last November

October 5, 2018

Will the IPCC 1.5 Degrees Special Report Help Drive Greater Climate Ambition?

Alden Meyer
Former Contributor

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October 5, 2018

Heat Extremes at 1.5°C and 2°C Warming

Rachel Licker
Former Staff

North Carolina National Guard

October 5, 2018

What a Difference 0.5°C Makes! Or, How a Seemingly Small Amount of Global Warming can Lead to a lot More Rain

Astrid Caldas
Senior Climate Scientist

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October 5, 2018

Seven Things You Should Know About the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report and its Policy Implications

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Energy efficiency investments provide benefits to all ratepayers. That's why all utilities should be required to meet a minimum standard for investment in this important resource. (credit: Shutterstock.com/Kzenon)

October 4, 2018

The Most Energy-Efficient States: 2018 Rankings

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

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October 4, 2018

Kids Deserve to Have Healthy Lives: The Uncertain Fate of EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

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October 4, 2018

Electoral Reform Update: One State at a Time

Michael Latner
Former UCS Fellow

October 3, 2018

Top EPA Science Office Sidelined as Political Appointees Hatched Controversial Science Proposal

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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October 3, 2018

DOI’s New Policy Restricts Science Under the Guise of Transparency

Charise Johnson
Former Contributor

USDA

October 3, 2018

Trump’s USDA vs. Science

Ricardo Salvador
Former Contributor

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October 2, 2018

New California Laws Address Climate Change—Some Bills Fall Short

Jason Barbose
Former Contributor

October 2, 2018

Experts Expose Hot Air in Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Risk Reporting

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

EPA

October 2, 2018

The EPA Disbanded Its Office of Science Advisor. Here’s Why That Matters.

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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October 1, 2018

Lapsed Farm Bill Hurts Central Texas Farmers and Low-income Families

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

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