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Union of Concerned Scientists

December 10, 2025

How Trump’s Free Pass to Polluters will Harm Americans

More than one-third of coal plants and other polluting facilities have been exempted from clear air rules.

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

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December 8, 2025

The Courts Delivered Important Climate Wins in 2025

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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December 10, 2025

How Should We Read China’s First White Paper on Arms Control in 20 Years?

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March 20, 2025

The Threats to Higher Education: A Call to Action

Melissa L. Finucane
Former Staff

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March 19, 2025

What Is a Climate Model and How Does It Work?

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

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March 19, 2025

One Month of RFK Jr.: Empty “MAHA” Promises Hide Attacks on Public Health

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

Chicago Mayor's Office

March 19, 2025

Transportation Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies and Disdain for the Public Firsthand.

Steven Higashide
Clean Transportation Program Director

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March 18, 2025

The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Lasting Imprint on Global Sea Levels

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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March 18, 2025

The Infuriating Story Told by the Corporate and National Carbon Emissions Data

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

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March 18, 2025

How Major Carbon Producers Drive Sea Level Rise and Climate Injustice

Shaina Sadai
Former Hitz Fellow

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March 18, 2025

Ask a Scientist: What’s the Future for Trucks?

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March 17, 2025

How Do ‘Future Climate Scenarios’ Shape Climate Science and Inform Policy?

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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March 17, 2025

Why I Don’t Buy Data Centers’ Claims They Can Leapfrog over Utilities

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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March 13, 2025

The User-Pay Myth: We ALL Pay for Our Roads, Not Just Drivers

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

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March 13, 2025

What Does Science Have to Do with the Price of Eggs?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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March 13, 2025

Whose House? Our House. Why We Must Fight the Theft and Butchering of Our Federal Agencies

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

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March 12, 2025

The Long History of Climate Models

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

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March 12, 2025

A Hundred Attacks and Counting: What Happened to Federal Science in February

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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March 10, 2025

We Are Charting a Path for Science in the Trump Era

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

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March 6, 2025

Farmers Will Pay More for Fertilizer Because of President Trump’s Tariffs

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

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March 6, 2025

Trump Administration Extends Its Attempted Power Grab with Executive Orders

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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March 6, 2025

President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

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March 6, 2025

Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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March 5, 2025

Musk Is Pushing the Great American Innovation Machine to the Brink

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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March 4, 2025

Transportation Burdens Add to All that Communities Are Already Facing

Kevin X. Shen
Northeast Transportation Policy Analyst/Advocate

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March 4, 2025

US South’s March Wildfires Signal Risks of a Dangerous Spring Fire Season

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

House Committee on Oversight

March 3, 2025

What UCS Said at the Congressional Hearing on ‘Opportunities to Strengthen US Energy Reliability’

Rachel Cleetus
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