The Equation

City street-Brooklyn rowhouse with apartment for rent sign.

Drew Angerer/Getty Images

April 29, 2025

President Trump’s 100 Days of Federal Housing Policy Chaos

How dismantling agencies and overreaching executive orders hurt the US housing system.

Zoe Middleton
Associate Director of Just Climate Resilience

the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, DC

Stephen Talas / Unsplash

April 30, 2025

When the System Stops Working for Everyone: Voting, Science, and the Future of Democracy

Joseph Reed
Policy Director, Center for Science and Democracy

LA May Day protest. People holding banners representing different social structures, organizations.

Anouchka/Getty Images

April 30, 2025

May Day 2025: An Invitation for Cross-Movement Solidarity

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

Explore our topics

Meet our bloggers

Ángel S. Fernández-Bou

Senior Climate Scientist

Carly Phillips

Research Scientist

Laura Grego

Research Director, Senior Scientist

See more authors

The latest

SB 100 Lobby Day in Sacramento

June 20, 2018

California Takes Another Run at 100 Percent Clean Electricity

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

June 20, 2018

Role of Regulation in Nuclear Plant Safety: A New Series of Posts

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

June 18, 2018

Trump Wants a New Low-Yield Nuclear Weapon. But the US Has Plenty Already.

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

Flickr/Roy Luck

June 18, 2018

Peter Wright’s 50+ Chemical Facility Conflicts: A Disaster Waiting to Happen

Genna Reed
Former Staff

Eric Kilby

June 15, 2018

Massachusetts Senate Unanimously Endorses a Bold Vision for Clean Transportation

Daniel Gatti
Former contributor

The Glenarm natural gas plant in Pasadena, California. Source: Wikimedia

June 14, 2018

Hey California, Let’s Spare the Air and Turn Down the Gas

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

The Chevron Richmond refinery fire in August 2012.

June 13, 2018

Contents Under Pressure: Speak Out Against EPA Proposed Chemical Facility Safety Rollbacks That Put Communities at Risk

Charise Johnson
Former Contributor

Photo: Gage Skidmore

June 13, 2018

New Evidence Shows Just How Bad the Trump Administration is at Governing

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

Community solar projects are becoming popular as a way to provide access to solar for everyone while being able to take advantage of the economies of scale for larger projects. (Source: Wikimedia)

June 13, 2018

Acceso equitativo a la energía solar en Massachusetts, en manos del Senado

Paula Garcia
Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst and Energy Justice Lead

Credit: J. Rogers

June 12, 2018

Massachusetts’s Clean Energy Economy: What the Legislature Needs to Do Now

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

Preston Keres/USDA

June 12, 2018

We Ranked All 50 States from Farm to Fork. Why We Bothered—and a Taste of Our Takeaways

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

Photo: Mike Mozart/Flickr

June 12, 2018

ExxonMobil Refuses to Give Scientists the Floor: Reflections from a Corporate Shareholders’ Meeting

UCS Science Network

Michael Fleshman/Flickr

June 12, 2018

Supreme Court Ignores Science, Enables Voter Purging, But Data May Have Final Say

Michael Latner
Former UCS Fellow

June 11, 2018

The Versatile Test Reactor Debate: Round 2

Ed Lyman
Director, Nuclear Power Safety

ArtBrom/Flickr

June 7, 2018

Will Chevron Show Leadership in Climate Solutions? Notes From the 2018 Shareholders’ Meeting

UCS Science Network

Petr Kratochvil/publicdomainpictures

June 7, 2018

Our Latest Automaker Rankings: What The Industry Needs to do to Keep Moving Forward

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

Grendelkhan /Wikimedia Commons

June 6, 2018

It’s Time to Implement Stronger Autonomous Vehicle Testing Standards

Richard Ezike
Former Contributor

June 5, 2018

Update on the Low-Yield Trident Warhead: Time for the Senate to Step Up

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

June 5, 2018

Why NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System Matters

Rachel Licker
Former Staff

June 2, 2018

Debriefing the EPA’s Science Advisory Board Meeting

Genna Reed
Former Staff

San Juan Citizens Alliance/EcoFlight

June 1, 2018

Who’s Interested in the Trump Coal Bailout?

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

June 1, 2018

The difference between 4,645 and 64 deceased in the aftermath of Hurricane María is… science

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

June 1, 2018

What the Failed House Farm Bill Got Wrong About SNAP and Work

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

June 1, 2018

New House Bill Cuts Critical Climate Research. The Senate Could Stop it

Brenda Ekwurzel
Director of Scientific Excellence

Older posts Newer posts

Top reads

Explore our topics

Meet our bloggers

The latest