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August 20, 2025

What Is a “Skinny” Farm Bill—and Is It a Bad Thing?

The House Agriculture Committee may attempt to push through a scaled-down version of the farm bill—but there are certain things it cannot leave out.

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

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August 19, 2025

We Can Have it All: Forward-Looking Climate Policy and Affordability. Here’s How.

Daniel Barad
Western States Policy Manager

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August 14, 2025

Scientists’ Role in Defending Democracy

Gretchen Goldman
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May 25, 2017

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: NNSA’s FY18 Budget Request

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

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May 24, 2017

On Bioenergy, Budgets, and Why Legislating Scientific Facts Is Never a Good Idea

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

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May 24, 2017

The Trump Budget Is an Affront to Farmers (and All of Us)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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May 24, 2017

What Would JFK Have Said About Clean Energy?

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

May 24, 2017

Trump’s Proposed Budget: A Wrecking Ball to Science

Ken Kimmell
Former President

May 23, 2017

Hearing from the Scientists Who Rely on Sea Grant

UCS Science Network

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May 23, 2017

As the White House Fixates on Coal, Renewable Energy Goes Local

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

May 23, 2017

Lamar Smith and Selective Transparency: Why I’ll Be Livetweeting the EPA Scientific Integrity Stakeholder Meeting

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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May 23, 2017

If It Ain’t Broke, Defund It: Trump’s Budget Writes Off SNAP—and With It His Supporters

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

May 23, 2017

Department of Interior Censors USGS Press Release on Climate Change, Flooding, and Sea Level Rise

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

May 23, 2017

TVA’s Nuclear Allegators

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

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May 22, 2017

California’s Cap-and-Trade Program and Low Carbon Fuel Standard Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly

Jason Barbose
Former Contributor

May 22, 2017

Three Steps Shell Can Take for the Climate—and to Earn Public Trust

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

May 22, 2017

Congress vs. Trump: Are the President’s Anti-Science Budget Priorities Headed for Another Defeat?

Rob Cowin
Former Contributor

May 21, 2017

North Korea’s May 21 Missile Launch

David Wright
Former Contributor

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May 19, 2017

Infrastructure Spending Is Coming. Climate Change Tells Us to Spend Wisely

Jamesine Rogers Gibson
Former Contributor

May 19, 2017

No Rest for the Sea-weary: Science in the Service of Continually Improving Ocean Management

UCS Science Network

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May 18, 2017

New Study on Smart Charging Connects EVs & The Grid

Peter O'Connor
Former contributor

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May 18, 2017

There’s an Elephant in the Room and It Smells Like Natural Gas

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

May 18, 2017

April 2017 Was the Second Hottest April on Record: We Need NOAA More Than Ever

Astrid Caldas
Senior Climate Scientist

May 17, 2017

Warhead Reentry: What Could North Korea Learn from its Recent Missile Test?

David Wright
Former Contributor

May 17, 2017

Ad Hoc Fire Protection at Nuclear Plants Not Good Enough

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

May 16, 2017

BP Hosts Annual General Meeting Amid Questions on Climate Change

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

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May 16, 2017

Three Reasons Congress Should Support a Budget Increase for Organic Agriculture Research

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

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