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UCS President Gretchen Goldman holds a sign reading Stand up for Science at a march in NYC during Climate Week 2025

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November 13, 2025

Ask a Scientist: How Is the Scientific Community Meeting This Moment?

Guest Commentary

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November 3, 2025

UCS Is Building an Alliance for Independent Science

Genna Reed
Former Staff

At a rally for science, an attendee holds a sign reading "got polio? me neither. thanks science"

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September 16, 2025

Science Must Go On: How Courageous Scientists Are Meeting the Moment

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

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August 28, 2025

How RFK Jr. Dismantled Trust in Public Health: A Student’s Warning for the Future

UCS Science Network

A woman in a lab coat looks through a microscope while three other researchers talk behind her.

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May 19, 2025

Federal Science Advisory Committees Are Being Defunded and Dismantled. Here’s a Toolkit to Help Independent Scientists Step Up

Melissa L. Finucane
Former Staff

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May 1, 2025

“Unfinished Business”: Experts Speak Out After Trump Administration Dismantles NEJAC

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

four people looking at binders and wearing lab coats.

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April 3, 2025

Science Silenced, Justice Denied: The Trump Administration’s Attack on NEJAC

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

A woman in a lab coat standing in a room full of computers

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April 2, 2025

A Backward March: Another Month of Attacks on Federal Science

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

President Trump sits in the Oval Office and holds up an executive order.

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January 30, 2025

How Science Has Fared in the First Two Weeks of the New Trump Administration

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

May 17, 2021

EPA Says More Diverse Advisory Committees Will Mean More Equitable Decisions

Genna Reed
Former Staff

April 29, 2021

Federal Government Should Embrace More Diverse and Inclusive Science Advice

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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July 15, 2019

Drilling Down on the Attempted Takedown of the Government’s Advisory Committees

Genna Reed
Former Staff

May 13, 2019

Improving Transparency and Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest for Science Advisory Committees

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

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May 30, 2018

EPA Science Advisory Board’s First 2018 Meeting: What to Expect

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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January 18, 2018

New Report Reveals Trump Administration Is Abandoning Science Advice

Genna Reed
Former Staff

October 31, 2017

Scott Pruitt's EPA Grant Ban Doesn't Apply to States or Tribes. Here's Why That's Interesting.

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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October 31, 2017

Scott Pruitt Deals Yet Another Blow to Independent Science Advice at the EPA

Genna Reed
Former Staff

September 5, 2017

Science Advice in Action: Highlights from an EPA Science Advisory Board Meeting

Genna Reed
Former Staff

August 21, 2017

Going in the Wrong Direction: We Need More Advice on the Impacts of Climate Change

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

May 8, 2017

Advisory Committee Shakeup Targets Independent Science and Scientists

Genna Reed
Former Staff

March 15, 2017

How's EPA's Science Advice Process Doing? Celebrating Sunshine and Progress at the EPA

Genna Reed
Former Staff

February 8, 2017

Advancing Scientific Integrity Through Federal Advisory Committees

Genna Reed
Former Staff

October 18, 2016

Talking Conflicts of Interest, Bias, and Sunshine in the Dietary Guidelines

Genna Reed
Former Staff