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

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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

This false colour image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 3 August 2025, shows the smoke cloud from the wildfires engulfing skies over Canada and the US. This false colour image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 3 August 2025, shows the smoke cloud from the wildfires engulfing skies over Canada and the US.

Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery/European Union

August 7, 2025

What We’re Watching: Wildfire Smoke and Trump Administration Mirrors

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

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

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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

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October 29, 2013

Performance Drives the B61 Bomb Update

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

October 29, 2013

NAPS Naps

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

October 28, 2013

Convenient Science for Hire: the American Council on Science and Health Puts the Cart before the Horse

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

October 28, 2013

Lessons from Hurricane Sandy for Flood Risk and Flood Insurance

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

October 25, 2013

Disproving the Skeptics: 10x More Windpower and Solar is No Problem!

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

October 24, 2013

Satellites, Storm Surge, and Sandy: The Need for Science to Inform Our Coastal Planning

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

October 24, 2013

A Boost for Electric Vehicles: Eight States Set New Goals for EV Deployment

Don Anair
Deputy Director & Research Director, Clean Transportation

October 24, 2013

A Food Day Wish List: More Veggies, Less Corn

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

October 23, 2013

"Catastrophic" Fire Conditions Arrive Early in Australia, Mirror the 2013 U.S. Wildfire Season

Melanie Fitzpatrick

October 23, 2013

Editorial Writers Consider the Water Crisis, Informed by UCS Experts

Celia Wexler
Former contributor

October 23, 2013

Wolf Shirks Responsibility for Effects of China Ban

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

October 22, 2013

Do Wind Turbines Affect Property Values? No — or at Least “No Statistical Evidence” — Says New Hedonic Study

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

October 22, 2013

Accidents and Transients

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

October 21, 2013

Human Nature and Creeping Environmental Threats

UCS Science Network

October 18, 2013

Where Is Wind Energy Cheaper than Natural Gas?

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

October 18, 2013

California Jumpstarts Energy Storage

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

October 18, 2013

Formula One, Efficiency Too: How Excessive Speed Doesn’t Mean Excessive Fuel Consumption

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

October 18, 2013

Penny Wise & Pound Foolish: Cuts to Basic Science at the Weapons Labs

Lisbeth Gronlund
Former UCS Global Security Program Co-Director

October 17, 2013

5 Ways the Shutdown Will Continue to Be a Drag for Early Career Scientists

Deborah Bailin
Former contributor

October 17, 2013

Small Farms, Not Monsanto, Are Key to Global Food Security

Doug Gurian-Sherman
Former contributor

October 17, 2013

Monsanto Scientist Pockets “World Food Prize”…But For What, Exactly?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

October 17, 2013

UCS Report on the Future of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex

Lisbeth Gronlund
Former UCS Global Security Program Co-Director

October 16, 2013

A Difficult Conversation: How to Prevent Power Outages in Coastal Communities

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

October 16, 2013

U.S. Shares Responsibility for Lack of Dialog with China on Nuclear Weapons

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

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