The Equation

A neon light installation by artist Alicia Eggert in the Smithsonian Institute reads in hot pink lettering: this present moment used to be the unimaginable future.

Gretchen Goldman/UCS (artwork by Alicia Eggert, Smithsonian American Art Museum)

January 15, 2026

The Future Is Not Written. It Is Ours to Create.

After one year of President Trump’s second term, let’s challenge ourselves to imagine and bring to life a much, much better future.

Gretchen Goldman
President and CEO of UCS

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January 15, 2026

One Year of the Trump Administration’s All-Out Assault on Climate and Clean Energy

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

two armed federal agents standing in a cloud of tear gas on a suburban street

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January 14, 2026

Divide and Destroy: A New Year of the Trump Administration’s Authoritarianism

Jennifer Jones
Program Director, Center for Science & Democracy

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May 11, 2016

Scientists, Legal Scholars Brief State Prosecutors on Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Accountability

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

May 10, 2016

Obama to Hiroshima: Actions, Not Words

Lisbeth Gronlund
Former UCS Global Security Program Co-Director

May 10, 2016

US Must Do More to Meet Paris Climate Change Commitments

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

May 10, 2016

A Powerful 1-2 Punch: Renewable Energy Tax Credits and the Clean Power Plan

Jeff Deyette
Director of State Policy and Analysis

May 10, 2016

Nuclear Plant Containment Failure: Pre-Existing Damage

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

May 9, 2016

Attacks on Clean Energy Up for Debate in Minnesota Legislature

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

May 6, 2016

Transatlantic Trade: What the Latest Leak Means for Science-Based Safeguards

Yogin Kothari
Former Contributor

May 6, 2016

From Academia to Advocacy and Back: The Importance of Translating Research into Policy

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

May 6, 2016

Lost in Translation: Engineering, Climate Science, and the Disconnect that Threatens California’s Infrastructure

Jamesine Rogers Gibson
Former Contributor

May 6, 2016

Dear Tomorrow: An Open Letter to My Son on Climate Change and His Future

Gretchen Goldman
President and CEO of UCS

May 6, 2016

Indian Point and a Victory for Sound Science at the NRC

Ed Lyman
Director, Nuclear Power Safety

May 5, 2016

Still Disinforming: ExxonMobil’s Continued Culpability in Climate Denial

Gretchen Goldman
President and CEO of UCS

May 5, 2016

Michigan Senate Proposals Put Clean Energy, Consumers at Risk

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

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May 5, 2016

Will Congress Reject the Administration’s New Plan to Dispose of Excess Plutonium?

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

May 4, 2016

Science, Religion, and Obama’s Mixed Legacy on Nuclear Weapons

David Wright
Former Contributor

May 4, 2016

Beef and the Paris Agreement: Changing What We Eat to Stop Causing Climate Change

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

May 4, 2016

Kendall’s Telling Mistake on the LRSO

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

May 3, 2016

Nuclear Plant Containment Failure: Overpressure

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

May 2, 2016

One Million Solar Energy Systems Now Turned On in US

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

May 2, 2016

Sugar Cuts in Day Care Meals: A Public Health Victory

Genna Reed
Former Staff

May 2, 2016

Hitting US Climate Targets: Will Electric Trucks Deliver the Goods?

UCS Science Network

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April 29, 2016

Energy Roadmap Shows Illinois Falling Behind on Renewable Energy and Efficiency

Jessica Collingsworth
Former Contributor

April 29, 2016

Draft Groundwater Regulations Don’t Make the Grade: Water Commission Calls Out "Substantial" Loophole

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

April 29, 2016

Why Would Congress Vote to Keep Carrots Out of Corner Stores?

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
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