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May 13, 2025

Putting Science to Work for Security: A Call to Prevent Nuclear Testing

Scientists have a role to play in protecting our collective future by speaking in opposition to a resumption of nuclear weapons testing.

Dylan Spaulding
Senior Scientist

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May 13, 2025

What is a Just Land Transition?

Amanda Fencl
Director of Climate Science, Climate and Energy

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May 13, 2025

Denial, Restriction and Manipulation: New Trump Administration Targets Voting Rights, Fair Representation

Liza Gordon-Rogers
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December 14, 2022

Defense Spending Reaches Record High as Pentagon Fails Its Audit – For Fifth Time

Jennifer Knox
Policy & Research Analyst

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December 13, 2022

Russia Postponed Talks on a Critical Arms Control Treaty. Here’s Why We Still Need Arms Control.

Tara Drozdenko
Director, Global Security Program

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December 12, 2022

Just and Sustainable Solutions for the Mining and Recycling of Rare Earth Elements in Wind Turbines

Charlie Hoffs
Former UCS Fellow

Wind turbine blades being transported by train through Denver.

Dennis Schroeder/NREL

December 12, 2022

What Happens to Wind Turbine Blades at the End of Their Life Cycle?

Charlie Hoffs
Former UCS Fellow

Workers watch installation of wind turbine blades.

Dennis Schroeder/NREL

December 12, 2022

How Are Wind Turbines Made?

Charlie Hoffs
Former UCS Fellow

The sun rises over mountains and ocean in the Eygptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, site of the 2022 UN COP27 conference

Juanma Clemente-Alloza/Unsplash

December 8, 2022

My COP27 Takeaways from Sharm el-Sheikh

Johanna Chao Kreilick
Former President

JP Rebello/ USACE

December 8, 2022

Missouri Community and Its Children Grappling With Conflicting Nuclear Waste Exposure Reports

Chanese A. Forté
Scientist

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USDA/Flickr

December 8, 2022

As the USDA Invests in “Climate-Smart” Agriculture, It’s Hard to Follow the Money

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland from Just Stop Oil addressing the public after throwing tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (1888).

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December 8, 2022

Ask a Scientist: In Moments of Despair, Climate Progress Can Keep Hope Alive

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

A person holds up an enormous zucchini, smiling (the person, not the zucchini). They are part of the Institute of American Indian Arts, a Land-Grant Tribal College and University. They are Land-Grant program Gardner Teresa Kaulaity Quintana (Kiowa), who leads the gardening team, operations, instruction and outreach for all things related the campus demonstration garden and greenhouse, in Santa Fe, NM. Photo taken on Sept. 11, 2019.

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December 6, 2022

How Should the USDA Spend its Research Budget? (We Have Some Ideas.)

Alice Reznickova
Former Contributor

Fred Schilling/US Supreme Court

December 6, 2022

Will We Let the US Supreme Court Further Dismantle Democracy in the Moore v Harper case?

Michael Latner
Former UCS Fellow

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December 5, 2022

More Fossil Natural Gas Won’t Lower High Energy Bills

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

Eddi Aguirre/Unsplash

December 5, 2022

Where’s My Train? Chronic Disinvestment in Transit Leaves Us All Stuck

Kevin X. Shen
Northeast Transportation Policy Analyst/Advocate

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December 2, 2022

Banking Against Science: Financial Institutions Continue to Fund Climate Destruction

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

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December 1, 2022

Why UCS Supporters Are Pressing EPA to Let California Enforce Its Truck Pollution Rules

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

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December 1, 2022

How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future?

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

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AP Photo/Lianne Milton, Napa Valley Register

November 30, 2022

This Year’s Danger Season Is Over, but Risks to Farmworkers Remain

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

D. Reichmuth/UCS

November 30, 2022

The Electric Cars of the Future Are Already Here Today

David Reichmuth
Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program

Stuart Rankin/Flickr

November 28, 2022

California Lawmakers Put Fossil Fuel Companies in the Hot Seat on Gas Prices

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

Patrick Hendry/Unsplash

November 22, 2022

Cumulative Impacts: Why Environmental Protections Need to Take Them into Account

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

The temples at Abu Simbel in Egypt, shown with a crowd of tourists exploring them

Yungchin Li/FLickr

November 22, 2022

World Heritage at 50: Can We Give a Future to Our Past?

UCS Science Network

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November 21, 2022

For Global Climate Success, New England Must Seize Climate and Clean Energy Opportunities

Roger Stephenson
Former Contributor

President Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

White House/Flickr

November 21, 2022

Why New DOE Battery Recycling and Repurposing Investments Are Crucial to The Future of EVs

Jessica Dunn
Scientist

photo of a woman speaking to a crowd on a city street through a microphone, in front of a sign that says "sub-poverty wages: I'm not lovin' it"

Carlos Fernandez, CIW/Flickr

November 21, 2022

How Many Farmworkers Are Food Insecure? It’s Hard to Tell

Alice Reznickova
Former Contributor

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