The Equation

Two young people move a pallet of water bottles through a park in NYC during a heat wave in 2025.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

August 5, 2025

As States Continue to Fail Workers, We Need Federal Heat Protections

It’s getting hotter. And states keep blocking heat protections for outdoor workers—including, most recently, Kentucky.

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

John Quentere Jr. looks at the window sticker of a new 2005 Chevy Blazer at Bredemann Chevrolet in Park Ridge, Illinois.

Tim Boyle/Getty

August 5, 2025

Trump’s Latest Move to Deny Climate Science and What it Means for Vehicle Standards

Don Anair
Deputy Director & Research Director, Clean Transportation

Community members grieve the lives lost to flooding in Texas' Hill Country at a vigil.

Brandon Bell/Getty Images

August 4, 2025

Despite Clear Preferences from Texas Hill Flood Survivors, Uncertainty Looms

Zoe Middleton
Associate Director of Just Climate Resilience

Explore our topics

Meet our bloggers

Susan Muller

Senior Energy Analyst

Laura Grego

Research Director, Senior Scientist

Michele Canales

Western States Policy Advocate

See more authors

The latest

March 18, 2015

Making Room for Renewables: Grid Integration Solutions for California's Clean Energy Future

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

March 17, 2015

Five Reasons the Ozone Standard Should Be Strengthened

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

March 17, 2015

When Open Door Policies at Nuclear Plants Go Awry

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

March 17, 2015

Lawyers for Coal

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

March 13, 2015

Freedom to Tweet? Government Scientists and the Right to Engage on Social Media

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

March 13, 2015

Major Surgery or Physical Therapy? Why Stability, Balance and Flexibility are the Right Prescription to Put the Renewable Fuel Standard Back on Track

Jeremy Martin
Director of Fuels Policy

March 13, 2015

New Quarterly Update to the UCS Satellite Database

Laura Grego
Research Director, Senior Scientist

March 12, 2015

Neighborhood Ministries: Putting Food on the Table and People to Work

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

March 11, 2015

Lead Poisoning: A Modern Plague among Children

UCS Science Network

March 11, 2015

Solar Power, Solar Donuts, and a Landmark 20-Gigawatt Milestone

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

March 11, 2015

Shipping Your Stuff Burns 70 Gallons of Fuel Every Year

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

March 11, 2015

Book Review: How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate by Andrew Hoffman

Aaron Huertas
Former Contributor

March 11, 2015

Oil is Changing: Five Facts About Oil You Should Probably Know from the Carnegie Oil Climate Index

Jeremy Martin
Director of Fuels Policy

March 11, 2015

Four Years after Fukushima: The NRC at a Tipping Point

Ed Lyman
Director, Nuclear Power Safety

March 10, 2015

How Bold Skepticism of “The Impossible” Can Help Drive The Future

Ken Kimmell
Former President

March 10, 2015

Risking Our Clean Energy Future by Gambling with an Overreliance on Natural Gas

Jeff Deyette
Director of State Policy and Analysis

March 10, 2015

Will the Clean Power Plan Enable a Risky Over-dependence on Natural Gas?

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

March 10, 2015

UCS Pen Pals

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

March 9, 2015

Tallahassee, We Have a Problem: The Harm Done by Florida’s Climate Leadership Void

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

March 9, 2015

School Lunch: Food Waste or Clean Plates?

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

March 9, 2015

5th Annual UCS Report on the NRC and Nuclear Power Safety

David Wright
Former Contributor

March 8, 2015

No More Ft. Calhouns!

David Wright
Former Contributor

March 6, 2015

Can Republican Politicians Change Their Tune on Climate and Energy?

Aaron Huertas
Former Contributor

March 4, 2015

Who’s Against Healthy School Lunches for Kids? (No Really, Who Is?)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Older posts Newer posts

Top reads

Explore our topics

Meet our bloggers

The latest