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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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Erika Spanger

Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

John Rogers

Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

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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

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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

March 4, 2015

Days of Haze: How Palm Oil and Landscape Fires Affect Health in Southeast Asia

Lael Goodman
Former contributor

March 3, 2015

Willie Soon, Academic Freedom, and How We Can Deal With Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

March 3, 2015

Pennsylvania Governor Proposes Big Investments in Renewable Energy and Efficiency

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

March 3, 2015

www.UNready.gov??

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

March 2, 2015

Heart of Science: Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

March 2, 2015

China's Not So Silent Spring: Can One Video Save China's Environment?

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

February 27, 2015

Smothering Snow, Spiking Sea Levels, and Other Climate Plot Twists: Expecting the Unexpected in the Northeast

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

February 27, 2015

Lessons from the Lunchroom: What Do We Know About School Lunch and Kids' Diet?

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

February 26, 2015

Rep. Grijalva’s Requests and the Real Problem with Conflict of Interest Disclosure

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

February 26, 2015

Counting the Benefits of Agroecology: We Have the Tools, Let’s Use Them

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

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