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September 3, 2025

New to Advocacy? 3 Tips for Early Career Scientists

Early-career scientists looking to make a difference: this post is for you!

Melissa Varga
Science Network Senior Manager

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September 2, 2025

Trump Appointees “Reorganize” the USDA, Putting the Department’s Mission at Risk

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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August 28, 2025

A Sober Commemoration: 20 Years Since Hurricane Katrina Hit Gulf Coast Communities

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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March 20, 2017

Counting the Attacks on Science by the Trump Administration and Congress

Gretchen Goldman
President and CEO of UCS

March 20, 2017

Why Freezing North Korea’s Weapons Programs Would Make Us Safer

David Wright
Former Contributor

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March 17, 2017

What NASA Earth Missions are on the Chopping Block? – PACE, CLARREO, OCO-3, and DSCOVR

Brenda Ekwurzel
Director of Scientific Excellence

March 17, 2017

Cover Crop Challenges: A Reminder That In Agriculture, Even Small Changes Can Be Hard

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

March 17, 2017

Secretary of Defense James Mattis: The Lone Climate Change Soldier in this Administration’s Cabinet

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

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March 16, 2017

Food Production Does NOT Need to Double by 2050 (And Other Required Reading for the Next USDA Secretary)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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March 16, 2017

Budget Proposal Throws Coal Communities under the Bus

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

March 16, 2017

New START is a Winner

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

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March 16, 2017

Will Congress Turn Its Back on the Safety of America's Workers?

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

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March 16, 2017

Helping the FDA Define "Healthy" Food Labels

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

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March 16, 2017

Are Electric Buses Feasible?

Jimmy O'Dea
Former Contributor

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March 15, 2017

Who's Marching for Science—and Why? Here Are 15 Answers

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March 15, 2017

We’ve Said It, the Post Says It, Now SciAm Too: Take Weapons Off Alert

David Wright
Former Contributor

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March 15, 2017

President Trump Has a Wrecking Ball (and it’s Aimed at the Climate)

Ken Kimmell
Former President

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March 15, 2017

EPA Pulls Back Sound Policy Judgment at Behest of Auto Industry

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

March 15, 2017

How's EPA's Science Advice Process Doing? Celebrating Sunshine and Progress at the EPA

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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March 15, 2017

Trump Administration Attacks Public Health Protections with Proposed Cuts to EPA Budget

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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March 15, 2017

How to Make Disasters More Costly and Harmful: Cut FEMA’s Budget

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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March 14, 2017

Stand Up for Science: 5 Ways Scientists Can Make Their Voices Heard

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

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March 14, 2017

What’s the Skinny on President Trump’s Skinny Budget? All Bark, No Bite

Rob Cowin
Former Contributor

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March 13, 2017

Marchemos en defensa de nuestro clima, nuestro ambiente y nuestra salud

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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March 13, 2017

Youth vs. a Government of, by, and for the Fossil Fuel Industry

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

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March 10, 2017

Dear Scott Pruitt: Stop Lying. We See What You Are Doing.

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

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March 10, 2017

The Latest on Solar’s Sweet Success, in 4 Great Graphs

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

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