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July 22, 2025

“Hydroclimate Whiplash”: How Extreme Rainfall and Drought Are Linked

The same atmospheric conditions that cause droughts can also produce extreme rainfall. Marc Alessi explains the whiplash.

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

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July 22, 2025

What Does Trump’s Budget Bill Mean for the Farm Bill?

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

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July 21, 2025

Six Months in, UCS Is in the Fight for the Long Haul

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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May 18, 2020

Clean Energy Job Losses: 600,000, and Counting, from COVID Impacts

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

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May 18, 2020

Crisis Vultures Are Circling Over the Energy Industry

Joseph Daniel
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May 15, 2020

Victory: House Includes Bipartisan Scientific Integrity Act in HEROES legislation

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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May 15, 2020

Mapas mostrando dónde los más vulnerables están azotados por COVID-19 en EEUU señalan una injusticia creciente

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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May 15, 2020

EPA Should Cancel Plans to Restrict Science Once and For All

Genna Reed
Former Staff

May 15, 2020

EPA Refused to Hold a Hearing on its Science Rule, So We Held It for Them

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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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

US Senate

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

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