Congress

An old air conditioning unit in a window of a blue house.

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October 23, 2025

How to Protect Residents of Affordable Housing from Climate-Driven Extreme Heat

Zoe Middleton
Associate Director of Just Climate Resilience

A tourist catches her breath after climbing the steps at the Lincoln Memorial during a heatwave.

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July 24, 2025

What We’re Watching: Climate and Political Whiplash

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

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June 9, 2025

With Proposed Budget Bill, House Crushes Clean Energy—And Risks Creating an Actual Energy Emergency

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin at his congressional confirmation hearing

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May 14, 2025

Seven Questions for EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as He Testifies Before Congress

Chitra Kumar
Managing Director, Climate and Energy Program

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May 1, 2025

What’s at Stake in the Budget Reconciliation Process (And What You Can Do About It)

David Watkins
Director of Government Affairs, Climate & Energy Program

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April 21, 2025

Will Congressional Republicans Attack Clean Energy in Budget Reconciliation?

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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March 5, 2025

Musk Is Pushing the Great American Innovation Machine to the Brink

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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February 25, 2025

Congress, and All of Us, Will Reckon with Budget Reconciliation This Year

David Watkins
Director of Government Affairs, Climate & Energy Program

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February 18, 2025

We Can Think Bigger About Democracy

Liza Gordon-Rogers
Research Associate

Voters line up at a polling place in Atlanta, Georgia.

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February 13, 2025

Voter Access Would Be Threatened by New Bills

Liza Gordon-Rogers
Research Associate

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February 6, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Targeting Science. The Scientific Integrity Act Could Help Protect It.

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

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January 7, 2025

How Farm Policy Was Caught Up in a Dramatic End to 2024

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

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December 16, 2024

The Real Scam: Rail Against Renewables, Run Away with Factories

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

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October 15, 2024

The Election Is Almost Here—But Where Is the Farm Bill?

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

photo of protestors marching in a street, holding a yellow banner with radiation symbols and the words "save RECA"; other signs say "pass RECA before we die"

Joe Newman

October 10, 2024

After the Election, Congress Must Help Victims of Radiation Exposure by Passing RECA

Lilly Adams
Senior Outreach Coordinator

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June 26, 2024

Congress Could Save $100B and Make Us Safer by Cancelling Sentinel

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

Speaker Johnson addresses the House of Representatives in October 2023.

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June 4, 2024

The (Legal) Way Congress Can Undo Federal Rules that Protect Us

Lisa Van Theemsche
Washington Representative II

Lilly Adams

May 8, 2024

The House Has Less Than Two Weeks to Save RECA

Lilly Adams
Senior Outreach Coordinator

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April 19, 2024

Earth Day Is a Day to Celebrate the Environmental Progress We’ve Made in Recent Years

Chitra Kumar
Managing Director, Climate and Energy Program

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January 30, 2024

For People Who Have Been Poisoned by Radiation, the Fight Continues in 2024

Lilly Adams
Senior Outreach Coordinator

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September 21, 2023

Nuclear Frontline Communities Understand Cumulative Burdens—Let’s Get Policymakers On The Same Page

Chanese A. Forté
Scientist

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July 25, 2023

Scientific Integrity Act Re-introduced in Congress to Protect Federal Science

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

Fire consumes a forest of pine trees, and smoke fills the air during the 2013 Alder Fire in Yellowstone National Park

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May 11, 2023

As Danger Season Begins, Congress Must Pass Stronger Wildfire Policies

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

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April 24, 2023

Using the Debt Ceiling to Advance Fossil Fuels Over Renewables is Bad Faith Bargaining

David Watkins
Director of Government Affairs, Climate & Energy Program