The Equation

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

April 21, 2025

Will Congressional Republicans Attack Clean Energy in Budget Reconciliation?

It is critical to stand up in defense of commonsense clean energy policies that drive the nation’s economy forward.

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

a researcher bending over a body of water to test it

The Tampa Bay Estuary Program / Unsplash

April 21, 2025

The Truth About Regulations

Jennifer Jones
Program Director, Center for Science & Democracy

An American flag with binary code superimposed over it.

Matt Anderson / Getty Images

April 17, 2025

“It Starts with Censorship”: An Interview with Science Defender Lisa Schiff

Pallavi Phartiyal
Vice President of Programs, Policy & Advocacy

Explore our topics

Meet our bloggers

L. Delta Merner

Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

Kate Cell

Senior Climate Campaign Manager

Brady Watson

Senior Campaign Coordinator

See more authors

The latest

Chicago Mayor's Office

March 19, 2025

Transportation Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies and Disdain for the Public Firsthand.

Steven Higashide
Clean Transportation Program Director

John Seaton Callahan/Getty Images

March 18, 2025

The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Lasting Imprint on Global Sea Levels

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

Sean Gallup/Getty Images

March 18, 2025

The Infuriating Story Told by the Corporate and National Carbon Emissions Data

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

EyeEm Mobile GmbH/Getty Images

March 18, 2025

How Major Carbon Producers Drive Sea Level Rise and Climate Injustice

Shaina Sadai
Former Hitz Fellow

Caroline Brehman/EPA, via Shutterstock

March 18, 2025

Ask a Scientist: What’s the Future for Trucks?

Guest Commentary

InterNetwork Media/Getty Images

March 17, 2025

How Do ‘Future Climate Scenarios’ Shape Climate Science and Inform Policy?

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

Kim Steele/Getty Images

March 17, 2025

Why I Don’t Buy Data Centers’ Claims They Can Leapfrog Over Utilities

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

Nathan Barteau/Unsplash

March 13, 2025

The User-Pay Myth: We ALL Pay for Our Roads, Not Just Drivers

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

photo of a person in a grocery store bending down to reach a carton of eggs. There are a handful of cartons of different colors on the lowest shelves but most of the shelves are empty.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

March 13, 2025

What Does Science Have to Do with the Price of Eggs?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Omari Spears/UCS

March 13, 2025

Whose House? Our House. Why We Must Fight the Theft and Butchering of Our Federal Agencies

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images

March 12, 2025

The Long History of Climate Models

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

Researchers monitor severe weather on their computers

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images

March 12, 2025

A Hundred Attacks and Counting: What Happened to Federal Science in February

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

Alex Wong/Getty Images

March 10, 2025

We Are Charting a Path for Science in the Trump Era

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

aerial photo looking down on a green tractor pulling fertilization equipment through a cornfield. The tractor's path has left a pattern of intersecting lines in the dirt.

Jacob Tosch/Porter County SWCD/USDA

March 6, 2025

Farmers Will Pay More for Fertilizer Because of President Trump’s Tariffs

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

President Trump, in the Oval Office, holds up a signed executive order

Alex Wong / Getty Images

March 6, 2025

Trump Administration Extends Its Attempted Power Grab with Executive Orders

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

President Trump signs an executive order at the White House.

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

March 6, 2025

President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

Delta Merner/UCSUSA

March 6, 2025

Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

March 5, 2025

Musk Is Pushing the Great American Innovation Machine to the Brink

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

Olga Subach/Unsplash

March 4, 2025

Transportation Burdens Add to All that Communities Are Already Facing

Kevin X. Shen
Northeast Transportation Policy Analyst/Advocate

Sean Rayford/Getty Images

March 4, 2025

US South’s March Wildfires Signal Risks of a Dangerous Spring Fire Season

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

House Committee on Oversight

March 3, 2025

What UCS Said at the Congressional Hearing on ‘Opportunities to Strengthen US Energy Reliability’

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

a cleanup crew monitors a field near the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment site.

Michael Swenson / Getty Images

March 3, 2025

The East Palestine Chemical Disaster Shows the Need for a Cumulative Impacts Approach

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

A senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center works on tracking Hurricane Beryl in 2024.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

March 3, 2025

What Does NOAA Do for Us, and How Can We Defend It?

UCS Science Network

Linda Pomerantz Zhang/Unsplash

February 28, 2025

Political Stunts Worsen Western Water Woes

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

Older posts Newer posts

Top reads

Explore our topics

Meet our bloggers

The latest