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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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May 16, 2013

Scientists Agree Human-Caused Climate Change is Real: But Wait, We've Known That for Decades!

Melanie Fitzpatrick

May 15, 2013

10 Places President Obama Should Visit to See Climate Change In Action

Brenda Ekwurzel
Director of Scientific Excellence

May 15, 2013

Towards Open Access to Government Science: The Obama Administration Takes Some Important Steps

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

May 14, 2013

We’ve Never Been Here Before: 400ppm of CO2 Measured in the Atmosphere at Mauna Loa

Melanie Fitzpatrick

May 14, 2013

Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #6: Reactor Daily Power Levels

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

May 13, 2013

USDA to Tackle 2,4-D-Resistant Engineered Crops Without Needed Regulations

Doug Gurian-Sherman
Former contributor

May 10, 2013

To EV or Not To EV: Are You Ready for an Electric Vehicle?

Josh Goldman
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May 10, 2013

Climate Change Is Disrupting Nature's Calendar. Thoreau's Notebooks Are Helping Show Us How.

Adam Markham
Former Staff

May 9, 2013

Reconceiving China’s No First Use Policy

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

May 9, 2013

Margaret Atwood on the Muzzling of Canadian Government Scientists

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

May 9, 2013

UCS Vision for Healthy Farms in the 21st Century: Agroecology has the Answers

Doug Gurian-Sherman
Former contributor

May 8, 2013

A Roundup of Editorials Criticizing President Obama’s Plan B Emergency Contraception Decision

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

May 8, 2013

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s MOX Factory to Nowhere

Ed Lyman
Director, Nuclear Power Safety

May 8, 2013

Solar Power Blooms Across the Country

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

May 7, 2013

Renewable Electricity Standards Deliver the Goods

Jeff Deyette
Director of State Policy and Analysis

May 7, 2013

Fission Stories #136: Scoring 100 on the Test by Changing the Questions

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

May 6, 2013

Ted Smith: A Visionary Conservation Leader and Climate Pioneer Remembered

Adam Markham
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May 3, 2013

Nuclear vs. Solar: Corporate Profits and Public Risk

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

May 3, 2013

Wildfire Season Has Arrived in the West

Todd Sanford
Former contributor

May 3, 2013

The Nation and the Scientist

Deborah Bailin
Former contributor

May 2, 2013

Extending the Success Against Illegal Logging to Palm Oil and Other Drivers of Deforestation

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

May 2, 2013

Toxic Algae and No-Till—The Environmental Darling of Industrial Agriculture and Genetic Engineering Looks Less Attractive

Doug Gurian-Sherman
Former contributor

May 2, 2013

A Dangerous Approach: Lawmaker Proposes Changes to How the National Science Foundation Funds Science

Gretchen Goldman
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May 1, 2013

Duped Again on Emergency Contraception

Michael Halpern
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