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A neon light installation by artist Alicia Eggert in the Smithsonian Institute reads in hot pink lettering: this present moment used to be the unimaginable future.

Gretchen Goldman/UCS (artwork by Alicia Eggert, Smithsonian American Art Museum)

January 15, 2026

The Future Is Not Written. It Is Ours to Create.

After one year of President Trump’s second term, let’s challenge ourselves to imagine and bring to life a much, much better future.

Gretchen Goldman
President and CEO of UCS

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January 15, 2026

One Year of the Trump Administration’s All-Out Assault on Climate and Clean Energy

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

two armed federal agents standing in a cloud of tear gas on a suburban street

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January 14, 2026

Divide and Destroy: A New Year of the Trump Administration’s Authoritarianism

Jennifer Jones
Program Director, Center for Science & Democracy

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Reporting From the Front Lines of Economics

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February 16, 2012

Doing Your Homework

Stephen Young
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February 14, 2012

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Michael Halpern
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February 14, 2012

Fission Stories #79: Crossing the Line at Zion

Dave Lochbaum
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February 13, 2012

A North Korean Mobile ICBM?

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February 10, 2012

CMRR-NF: Delay Makes Sense

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Former UCS Global Security Program Co-Director

February 9, 2012

Two 16-year-old Girl Scouts Win First Ever UN Forest Heroes Award

Brenda Ekwurzel
Former Staff

February 9, 2012

New Update of UCS Satellite Database

Laura Grego
Research Director, Senior Scientist

February 8, 2012

Clean Energy Prices (Not the Sky) Falling in California

Laura Wisland
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February 8, 2012

Dear Climate Deniers, Meet California Scientists and Engineers with the Facts and Solutions to the Pollution

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February 8, 2012

The Great ShakeOut: Earthquakes Affect Reactors, Too

David Wright
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February 7, 2012

Monsanto’s (Still) Failing Grade

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

February 7, 2012

Fission Stories #78: The Bucket List

Dave Lochbaum
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February 7, 2012

The Blue Marble 2012, an Incredible Image of the Pale Blue Dot

Michael Halpern
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February 6, 2012

Another Iranian Satellite Launch: Navid

David Wright
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February 3, 2012

Car Companies Embrace a Different Kind of Climate Change, Oil Industry Threatens to Sue

David Friedman
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February 1, 2012

An Image Worth A Thousand Words

Laura Wisland
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January 31, 2012

Ed Lyman Testifying on the Final BRC Nuclear Report

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January 31, 2012

Fission Stories #77: Giving Safety a Sporting Chance

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January 30, 2012

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January 30, 2012

Peter Bradford on Vermont Yankee

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January 27, 2012

300+ Experts Urge President Obama to Intervene to Protect Workers from Toxic Dust

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Dismal Science at the Wall Street Journal

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Former Director of Science and Policy and Chief Climate Scientist

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