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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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April 6, 2021

Nueva Ley para enfrentar el cambio climático en Massachusetts: ¡5 razones para celebrar!

Paula Garcia
Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst and Energy Justice Lead

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April 6, 2021

Massachusetts’s New Climate Law: 5 Reasons to Celebrate!

Paula Garcia
Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst and Energy Justice Lead

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April 2, 2021

American Jobs Plan Offers Welcome Focus on Rural Communities

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

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April 2, 2021

Six Ways Chevron Imperils Climate, Human Rights, and Racial Justice

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

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April 2, 2021

Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Hype Over Hypersonic Weapons

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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April 2, 2021

Nuclear Weapons are Not Top of Mind for Biden. Here’s Why They Should Be.

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

UCS

April 1, 2021

The American Jobs Plan Takes Next, but not Last, Step on Clean Energy

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

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Steve Moskowitz

March 31, 2021

Administrator Regan Resets EPA Science Advice

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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March 31, 2021

US Targets 30,000 Megawatts of Offshore Wind. How We Get There

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

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March 31, 2021

We Have an Infrastructure Plan

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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March 30, 2021

Protecting Workers from COVID-19: Long Overdue Safety Standards Coming Soon from OSHA

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

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March 29, 2021

Investing in a Worker-Centered Federal Response to Energy Transition

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

EPA

March 26, 2021

Administrator Michael Regan is Bringing Science Back to the EPA

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

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Tony Webster

March 26, 2021

Republican State Legislatures Are Attacking Voting Rights. Congress Has the Power to Fight Back.

Michael Latner
Former UCS Fellow

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March 26, 2021

Voter Suppression in Georgia Again: Anti-Democracy, Anti-Science

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

March 24, 2021

What I Told Congress: Five Ways to Rebuild Scientific Capacity in Federal Agencies

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

Melody Tan

March 24, 2021

The Science Policy Community’s Responsibility to Address Anti-Asian Xenophobia

UCS Science Network

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March 19, 2021

ExxonMobil Versus Chevron: Fight for Second-to-Last Place Among Fossil Fuel Companies Has Begun

Nicole Pinko
Former Contributor

March 18, 2021

Censorship of Federal Environmental Agency Websites Under Trump: What We Learned and How to Protect Public Information Moving Forward

UCS Science Network

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March 17, 2021

Let’s Toast to Open Government—It’s Sunshine Week!

Taryn MacKinney
Former Contributor

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March 17, 2021

What Xcel’s Western Coal Fleet Can Learn From its Northern One

Joseph Daniel
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March 16, 2021

3 Research Questions Could Hold the Key to Sustainable Eating

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

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March 16, 2021

The Texas Power Outages Were A “Wake-Up Call” Only Because Decisionmakers Everywhere Keep Hitting Snooze

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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March 16, 2021

Masking the Danger: States Dismantle COVID-19 Safety Protocols at Our Peril

Derrick Z. Jackson
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