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June 26, 2025

We Need Sound Policy Informed by Science. The Trump Administration Is Undermining it.

With a name like “gold standard science,” you might expect the Trump administration’s guidelines on federal science to be awesome. They’re not.

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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June 26, 2025

Maine Commits to 100% Clean Electricity by 2040

Steve Clemmer
Director of Energy Research & Analysis

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June 25, 2025

What Are the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence?

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Director of Innovation and Collaboration

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May 15, 2020

Flooding, Locusts, and COVID-19: A Triple Disaster for Eastern Africa

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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May 14, 2020

The EPA Is Set To Ignore Science and Risk Your Health on Particulate Pollution: Your Voice Needed

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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May 14, 2020

Put Workers First in COVID Response

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

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May 13, 2020

Six Ways Nancy Beck Showed Us She Doesn’t Care About Us or Science

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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May 13, 2020

Kids, Families, and Food Workers Need a “HEROES Act.” Will Congress Deliver?

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

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May 13, 2020

Which States Are Prepared for the 2020 Election?

Michael Latner
Former UCS Fellow

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May 13, 2020

On the Heels of Rollback, Auto Makers Seek Another Hand Out

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

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May 12, 2020

As Oil Prices Crash, BLM Wants to Open Up Public Lands in New Mexico for More Extraction

Maria Caffrey
Former Contributor

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May 12, 2020

Pandemic’s Stay-at-Home Order Shrinks California Energy Demand

Adenike Adeyeye
Former Contributor

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May 11, 2020

COVID-19 Collision with the 2020 Fire Season Will Ignite Multiple Threats

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

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May 8, 2020

Timeline: 23 Years of Attempts to Restrict Public Health Science at EPA

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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May 8, 2020

The Push to Relax COVID-19 Protections Exposes Age-Old Racial Wounds

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

US Air Force

May 8, 2020

We Need a New Normal Post-COVID-19 That’s Not a Death Sentence to Black People

Adrienne Hollis
Former Contributor

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May 8, 2020

The Latest US Test Flight of a Hypersonic Weapon: the Common Hypersonic Glide Body

Cameron Tracy
Former Contributor

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May 6, 2020

Hot Weather and COVID-19: Added Threats of Reopening States in Summer

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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May 6, 2020

BlackRock Faces the Reality of Climate Activism

Nicole Pinko
Former Contributor

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May 6, 2020

Responding to COVID-19 Doesn’t Have to Mean Sacrificing Frontline Communities

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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May 6, 2020

Responder al COVID-19 no tiene que significar sacrificar a las comunidades vulnerables

Genna Reed
Former Staff

Derrick Jackson

May 5, 2020

Why Congress Must Invest in Environmental Justice and Equity in the Next Recovery Package

Adrienne Hollis
Former Contributor

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May 5, 2020

New Study Shows Benefits of Voting by Mail

Michael Latner
Former UCS Fellow

Nathan Waters

May 5, 2020

Ask a Scientist: What Should a Post-Pandemic Economy Look Like?

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

U.S. Department of Energy

May 4, 2020

Nuclear Weapons, Frontline Communities, and the COVID Stimulus. What You Need to Know.

Lilly Adams
Senior Outreach Coordinator

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May 2, 2020

Movie Review: Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans” Traffics in Myths, Errors, and Dangerous Misdirection

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

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May 1, 2020

Does Japan Have Nuclear Weapons?

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

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