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September 2, 2025

Trump Appointees “Reorganize” the USDA, Putting the Department’s Mission at Risk

UCS submitted public comments on a USDA plan that would hollow out the agency’s scientific capacity and disrupt vital services.

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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September 3, 2025

New to Advocacy? 3 Tips for Early Career Scientists

Melissa Varga
Science Network Senior Manager

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August 28, 2025

A Sober Commemoration: 20 Years Since Hurricane Katrina Hit Gulf Coast Communities

Rachel Cleetus
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Fruits and vegetables of all sorts are inspected by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) Market News Reporters and Specialty Crop Inspectors at the Terminal Market in Chicago, April 26, 2019.

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December 15, 2022

Latest Round of USDA Climate-Smart Grantmaking is Both Better and More of the Same

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

J. O'Dea

December 15, 2022

Truck Loopholes 101 – When Emissions Regulations Don’t Match the Real World

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

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December 15, 2022

Why is Congress Funding a Nuclear Weapon the Biden Administration Doesn’t Want?

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

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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

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December 8, 2022

My COP27 Takeaways from Sharm el-Sheikh

Johanna Chao Kreilick
Former President

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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

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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

Johann Olivier/Flickr

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

Ikcerog/Wikimedia Commons

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

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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?

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