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July 8, 2025

What China’s Approach to Iran Tells Us About Its Foreign Policy

By not taking sides against Iran or Russia in recent conflicts, China is trying to achieve stability and play the role of global mediator.

Robert Rust
China Analyst

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July 8, 2025

Climate Lawsuits Are Rising as Political Pushback Intensifies

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

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July 7, 2025

Seven Things You Need to Know About the Texas Flash Flood Tragedy

Rachel Cleetus
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July 16, 2024

Ask a Scientist: What Happens When Sea Level Rise Comes for Public Housing?

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July 15, 2024

Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Derrick Z. Jackson
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July 11, 2024

Improved EV Credits Makes the Switch Even Easier for US Drivers

David Reichmuth
Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program

Kristie Ellickson

July 9, 2024

Supreme Court Sidelines Science, Threatens Public Health: These Rules-in-Progress Show What’s at Stake

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

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July 8, 2024

A Brutal Supreme Court Session Puts a Generation of Public Protections at Risk

Michell McIntyre
Former Staff

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July 8, 2024

The True Intent of Overturning Chevron: Stifle Agency Rulemaking

Guest Commentary

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July 8, 2024

Massachusetts’ Siting Process is Hurting Environmental Justice Populations. Will New Legislation Help?

Paula Garcia
Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst and Energy Justice Lead

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July 2, 2024

What’s New in Climate Lawsuits?

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

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July 1, 2024

Fossil Fuels Must Go: Re-inventing US Transportation

Maria Cecilia Pinto de Moura
Scientist

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July 1, 2024

An Investigation into Public Participation Motivated by Memories and a Connection to Home

Guest Commentary

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July 1, 2024

How the Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision Benefits Big Oil and Gas

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

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June 26, 2024

Congress Could Save $100B and Make Us Safer by Cancelling Sentinel

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

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June 26, 2024

What UCS Said to Pennsylvania Legislators About Hydrogen Hubs and Climate Change

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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June 24, 2024

Infrastructure at Risk in Your Hometown: New Map Shows What Will Flood as Sea Level Rises

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

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June 24, 2024

New Analysis Pinpoints Critical Infrastructure Threatened by Rising Seas in Hundreds of Coastal Communities

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

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June 24, 2024

Necesitamos acción urgente para crear la resiliencia costera al aumento del nivel del mar

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

An industrial area near Houston, TX, with large storage tanks and scaffolding everywhere, is submerged by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

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June 24, 2024

How to Protect Coastal Infrastructure at Risk from Sea Level Rise

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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June 24, 2024

Infraestructura en riesgo en su ciudad: Un nuevo mapa muestra lo que se inundará con el aumento del nivel del mar

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

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June 24, 2024

Watt Comes Around Goes Around: Will California Do the Right Thing on EV Batteries?

Jessica Dunn
Scientist

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June 24, 2024

It’s Danger Season–Is Our Nation’s Infrastructure Ready?

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

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June 24, 2024

What Xi Jinping Tells His Military About Taiwan

Robert Rust
China Analyst

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June 24, 2024

Taking a Lesson from the Tobacco Ad Ban to Shut Down Fossil Fuel Greenwashing

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

A group of scientists stand in front of Citigroup on Wall St. during the Scientists Speakout Day in June 2024. They hold a banner showing the global average temperatures from 1860 via a color graph that becomes much redder after 2010.

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June 20, 2024

Scientists Demand Citigroup End Fossil Fuel Funding

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

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June 20, 2024

Strengthening Our Democracy: Science-Based Recommendations to Improve Election Data Transparency

Liza Gordon-Rogers
Research Associate

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