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three scientists in goggles and lab coats conduct experiments.

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May 29, 2025

Trump’s Executive Order Puts Science Under the Thumb of Politics

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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May 22, 2025

How the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Pursuing a Liability Waiver

Kate Cell
Senior Climate Campaign Manager

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May 12, 2025

President Trump’s Elections Executive Order: A Dubious Power Grab

Lisa Van Theemsche
Washington Representative II

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May 1, 2025

Trump’s 6 Worst Attacks on FEMA in the First 100 Days

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

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April 21, 2025

Why Congress Must Block a Liability Waiver for the Fossil Fuel Industry

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

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April 10, 2025

Ask a Scientist: A Hundred Days of Harm—How the Trump Administration Is Eviscerating Science and What We Can Do About It

Seth Michaels
Senior Science Policy Writer

FEMA

April 1, 2025

7 Takeaways from Trump’s Disaster Preparedness Executive Order and What It Means for US

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

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March 24, 2025

The Illegal Trump Scheme to Have Agencies Obliterate Critical Rules and Safeguards

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

Researchers monitor severe weather on their computers

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March 12, 2025

A Hundred Attacks and Counting: What Happened to Federal Science in February

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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March 10, 2025

We Are Charting a Path for Science in the Trump Era

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

President Trump, in the Oval Office, holds up a signed executive order

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March 6, 2025

Trump Administration Extends Its Attempted Power Grab with Executive Orders

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

President Trump signs an executive order at the White House.

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March 6, 2025

President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

A senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center works on tracking Hurricane Beryl in 2024.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

March 3, 2025

What Does NOAA Do for Us, and How Can We Defend It?

UCS Science Network

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February 28, 2025

Political Stunts Worsen Western Water Woes

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

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February 19, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Waging an Attack on Environmental Health and Fair Representation

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

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February 5, 2025

Russell Vought Is a Dangerous Choice to Head OMB. Congress Should Vote No on His Nomination.

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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January 23, 2025

Here Comes the Fossil Fuel Agenda

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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January 21, 2025

Rolling Back Vehicle Standards Is Bad for Drivers, the Auto Industry, and Anything that Breathes

Don Anair
Deputy Director & Research Director, Clean Transportation

A woman holds up a sign reading "no human is illegal" at a 2017 protest in Miami.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

January 17, 2025

Mass Deportation Is an Inhumane Policy and Bad for the United States

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

photo of a pair of hands picking strawberries on a farm and placing them in stack of crates; each crate is labeled "strawberries"

Lance Cheung/USDA

January 16, 2025

Cruel Trump Deportation Plan Will Hurt Farmers, Food Workers, and All of Us

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

January 29, 2021

Scientific Integrity, Climate Action and Environmental Justice, Oh My! Science Activists Be Proud!

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

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November 10, 2020

The Damage to Science that President-Elect Biden Can Undo with a Stroke of a Pen

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

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October 28, 2020

A New and Direct Assault on Federal Scientists: an Executive Order Designed to Politicize Public Service

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

USDA

May 20, 2020

With Trump Executive Order, Are Meat and Poultry Plants a COVID-19 Ticking Time Bomb?

Rebecca Boehm
Former Contributor