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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
President of UCS

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Stephen Young

Senior Washington Representative

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July 31, 2013

Scientists Have a Responsibility to Engage

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

July 31, 2013

Wacky Weather, a Warmer Arctic, and a Slower Jet Stream – Is There a Link?

Melanie Fitzpatrick

July 30, 2013

Energy-Water Collisions: A Shared Concern for State Utility Regulators

Steve Clemmer
Director of Energy Research & Analysis

July 30, 2013

Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #11: Reactor Protection

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

July 29, 2013

Genetic Technology's Answer to A Major Insect Pest

Doug Gurian-Sherman
Former contributor

July 29, 2013

The Science and Democracy Connections of Chemical Safety, Trade Agreements and Money in Politics

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

July 29, 2013

Clean Up on Aisle Six! Tax Reform and an Opportunity for Better Biofuels

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

July 25, 2013

Water Tight: Our Climate Change Future Requires Our Water Smarts Today

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

July 25, 2013

Cover Crops Dramatically Increase Corn Yields–Especially In Drought Conditions

Margaret Mellon
Former contributor

July 24, 2013

Don’t Like the Endangered Species Act? Try to Weaken It by Gutting the Science

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

July 23, 2013

Fission Stories #142: Fort Calhoun and the Flawed Safety Net

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

July 22, 2013

UCS Comments on NRC’s Draft Spent Fuel Storage Study

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

July 19, 2013

Refocusing the Farm Bill

Margaret Mellon
Former contributor

July 19, 2013

New Threats To Whistleblowers

Celia Wexler
Former contributor

July 19, 2013

Arizona: Don't Turn Out the Lights on Solar Power

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

July 19, 2013

Bigger, Hotter, and Longer Wildfires are the New Normal as the Climate Changes in the West

Adam Markham
Former Staff

July 18, 2013

A Peek Inside the Administrator’s Inbox – Some of What’s Waiting for Gina McCarthy as New EPA Administrator

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

July 18, 2013

The Social Cost of Carbon: Setting the Record Straight Ahead of Today's House Hearing

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

July 17, 2013

3+2 = $60 Billion

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

July 16, 2013

Water-Smart Power: Why Our Power Plant Choices Matter in a Warming, Water-Constrained World

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

July 16, 2013

In Search of the Federal Role on Fracking

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

July 16, 2013

Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #10: Generic Communications

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

July 15, 2013

Nuclear Energy in a Changing China

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

July 12, 2013

Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing? What's in a Name?

Deborah Bailin
Former contributor

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