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May 13, 2025

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

Scientists have a role to play in protecting our collective future by speaking in opposition to a resumption of nuclear weapons testing.

Dylan Spaulding
Senior Scientist

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What is a Just Land Transition?

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

Liza Gordon-Rogers
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January 29, 2018

Clean Energy Leadership: Next Steps for Massachusetts

John Rogers
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January 29, 2018

DTE Customers Could Save $340 Million with Clean Energy Compared to Proposed Gas Plant

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January 26, 2018

Infrastructure in the Trump Congress: We Must Build for the Future, Not the Past

Rob Cowin
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January 26, 2018

Despite Rhetoric, Coal Jobs Not Set to Increase in the Future

Jeremy Richardson
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January 26, 2018

Science and the Law: Two Pillars of Truth Intersect at Political Boundaries

Michael Latner
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January 25, 2018

Building Momentum After the Tax Bill: A Call for Scientists to Remain Engaged

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January 25, 2018

Three Good Things Massachusetts is Doing on Climate

Daniel Gatti
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January 25, 2018

Should the President Have Sole Authority to Launch a Nuclear Attack? In the Age of Trump, Experts Offer an Alternate Plan

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January 24, 2018

ExxonMobil’s Jekyll-and-Hyde Act: A Year in Holding Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable

Kathy Mulvey
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January 24, 2018

Why the Solar Tariff Slows Clean Energy Progress and Hurts California Workers

Laura Wisland
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January 23, 2018

UCS Sues to Stop EPA from Kicking Independent Experts Off Advisory Boards

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

January 22, 2018

A Good Move from Chairman Smith and the House Science Committee: Tackling Sexual Harassment in Science

Gretchen Goldman
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January 19, 2018

Standing Ground: The State of Voting Rights in Year One of the Trump Administration

Michael Latner
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January 19, 2018

3 Reasons Why the Trump USDA’s School Nutrition Rollbacks Should Worry You—and What You Can Do About It

Sarah Reinhardt
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January 19, 2018

From National Parks to the EPA, Trump Administration Stiff-Arms Science Advisers

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January 18, 2018

New Report Reveals Trump Administration Is Abandoning Science Advice

Genna Reed
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January 16, 2018

Five Lessons Our Science Network Watchdogging Teams Have Taught Us

Andrew Rosenberg
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January 16, 2018

Why Engineers Should Refuse to Work on Trump’s Wall

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January 16, 2018

Benny Hill Explains the NRC Approach to Nuclear Safety

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January 13, 2018

Lost in Space? The Zuma Satellite

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January 12, 2018

The Trump’s Administration’s Dangerous New Nuclear Policy

Stephen Young
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January 12, 2018

NAACP’s MLK Day initiative makes solar more accessible

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January 11, 2018

Latest EPA Automaker Reports Show Compliance with and Success of Standards

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Japan’s Role in the North Korea Nuclear Crisis

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