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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
Research Associate

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March 4, 2020

The Trump EPA Is Restricting EPA Science. It’s Somehow Worse than We Expected.

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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March 4, 2020

It’s Time to Ask the Candidates: How Will You Use Science to Protect Everyone?

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

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March 4, 2020

EPA Moves to Handcuff Its Scientists

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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March 3, 2020

The Minnesota Senate Must Do Better on Clean Energy Legislation: Here’s How

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

US Senate

March 3, 2020

Senators Must Stop Nancy Beck’s Playbook for Undermining Science

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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March 3, 2020

Most Fuel-Efficient Cars: a Win for Consumers’ Pockets, the Economy, and Climate, but What’s Next?

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

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March 3, 2020

California’s Electric Sector is About to Veer Off Track in Fight Against Climate Change

Mark Specht
Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst

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March 3, 2020

Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in the Midwest

Jessica Collingsworth
Former Contributor

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March 3, 2020

Science, Denied, Again. Interior Department Adds Inaccurate Climate Change Info to Reports

Maria Caffrey
Former Contributor

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March 2, 2020

Nuclear Weapons and the 2020 Presidential Race: High Demand, Little Debate, Little Knowledge

Sean Meyer
Former Contributor

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March 2, 2020

Profiles in Cowardice: Oregon Lawmakers Run Away from Climate Action. Literally.

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

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February 28, 2020

A Quick Guide to Battery Reuse and Recycling

Hanjiro Ambrose
Former Contributor

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February 28, 2020

Forest Service Budget Cuts Will Deprive US Communities of Forestry Science that Improves Climate Resilience

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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February 28, 2020

Coronavirus and the Terrifying Muzzling of Public Health Experts

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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February 28, 2020

Trump Administration Ignores Worker Safety in Pursuit of Offshore Oil Profits

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

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February 27, 2020

The Trump Administration Has Hindered Our Ability to Effectively Respond to the Coronavirus Epidemic

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

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February 26, 2020

A Resilience Roadmap: Fulfilling Agriculture’s Role as a Climate Solution

Mike Lavender
Former Contributor

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February 25, 2020

Sabotaged Science in the Arctic Refuge: Interior Department Works to Undermine Its Own Scientists

Joel Clement
Former Contributor

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February 25, 2020

Cinco Cosas que Debes Saber la Próxima Vez que Pidas un Lyft o un Uber

Maria Cecilia Pinto de Moura
Senior Vehicles Engineer

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February 24, 2020

The Real Reason Behind Coal’s Cycling Woes

Joseph Daniel
Former Contributor

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February 24, 2020

Storage Could Catch Up to Wind and Solar’s Quick Growth

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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February 24, 2020

EPA Might Finally Regulate PFAS But the Process Matters

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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February 20, 2020

In a Snapshot, “Sea” the Future Today

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