federal science

People holding signs rally in front of the Washington Monument in DC. One sign reads "Science Saves Lives"; another says "Fire DOGE, not me"

Alex Wong/Getty Images

August 14, 2025

Scientists’ Role in Defending Democracy

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

satellite photo of the continental United States with the rivers of the Mississippi and Missouri watershed highlighted; all the rivers eventually drain into the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

July 31, 2025

What Do Trump’s Attacks on NOAA Have to Do with the Gulf Dead Zone?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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matsou/Getty Images

July 23, 2025

The Great American Engine Stall: Science Budget Cuts Threaten US Innovation

Melissa L. Finucane
Vice President of Science & Innovation

Rene DeAnda / Unsplash

July 21, 2025

New UCS Analysis Documents Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

a view of the White House from the National Mall.

Rene DeAnda / Unsplash

June 30, 2025

Schedule F by Another Name Is Still a Threat to Science

Joseph Reed
Policy Director, Center for Science and Democracy

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Yuhan Zhang/Wikipedia

June 26, 2025

We Need Sound Policy Informed by Science. The Trump Administration Is Undermining It.

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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June 23, 2025

OSTP Has a Choice to Make: Science or Politics?

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

President Trump, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials sit at a table in the White House.

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

June 12, 2025

Science Under Fire in Washington

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

Alex Wong/Getty Images

June 9, 2025

Science Caught in a Rip Tide: How Authoritarianism Sweeps Away Evidence-Based Policy

Melissa L. Finucane
Vice President of Science & Innovation

a woman in a lab coat conducts a scientific test outdoors.

Alesia Gritcuk / Unsplash

June 5, 2025

Fool’s Gold: The Trump Administration’s New Executive Order Is a Bad-Faith Attack on Science

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

three scientists in goggles and lab coats conduct experiments.

CDC / Unsplash

May 29, 2025

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

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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

Tru Katsunade / Unsplash

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
Vice President of Science & Innovation

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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / Unsplash

May 8, 2025

The State of Science at 100 Days: Co-Opted, Hindered, and Undermined

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

a researcher bending over a body of water to test it

The Tampa Bay Estuary Program / Unsplash

April 21, 2025

The Truth About Regulations

Jennifer Jones
Program Director, Center for Science & Democracy

An American flag with binary code superimposed over it.

Matt Anderson / Getty Images

April 17, 2025

“It Starts with Censorship”: An Interview with Science Defender Lisa Schiff

Pallavi Phartiyal
Vice President of Programs, Policy & Advocacy

Scott Olson/Getty Images

April 16, 2025

Everyone Loses When Environmental Justice Programs Are Cut

Elise Tolbert
Senior Energy Campaign Manager

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Walter Otto / Unsplash

April 15, 2025

5 Ways the Chaos at HHS Could Affect Your Community’s Health

Guest Commentary

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

National Cancer Institute/Unsplash

April 2, 2025

A Backward March: Another Month of Attacks on Federal Science

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

A demonstrator holds a sign that says EPA within a hand-drawn heart, in a federal building in Washington, DC this February.

Al Drago/Getty Images

March 25, 2025

The EPA’s Research Office Launched My Career. Now It’s in Danger.

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

A close-up of the top of a graduation cap that reads "right here is a future nurse," from a photo taken at commencement for Bowie State University in Maryland, a Historically Black College/University.

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

March 20, 2025

The Threats to Higher Education: A Call to Action

Melissa L. Finucane
Vice President of Science & Innovation

Researchers monitor severe weather on their computers

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images

March 12, 2025

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

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

Alex Wong/Getty Images

March 10, 2025

We Are Charting a Path for Science in the Trump Era

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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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

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