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December 9, 2024

What Is Scientific Integrity—and How Does It Keep All of Us Safe?

Christopher Williams
Former Staff

A billboard truck calling for Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself in the case that eventually overturned the Chevron Doctrine passes in front of the US Capitol building in 2023, before the case was heard.

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November 22, 2024

Roundup: White House Releases Scientific Integrity Progress Report

Liz Borkowski
Science Network Contributor

Scientists looks at COVID-19 samples in a lab.

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November 21, 2024

Why Trust in Science Matters

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

A 2020 U.S. Census form.

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November 14, 2024

Federal Government Implements More Inclusive Standards for Collecting Race and Ethnicity Data

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

A bald eagle stands in a wetlands wildlife refuge.

Derrick Z. Jackson

October 17, 2024

Wetland Protections Remain Bogged Down in Mystery

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

A woman in a scientific laboratory, wearing a lab coat and gloves.

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September 12, 2024

How Can We Defend Government Science from Political Interference?

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

Two BIPOC FDA scientists wearing labcoats and protective gear prepare liquid containing nutrients that make it an ideal environment for growing bacteria. They are part of a group of researchers nicknamed “Team Tomato,” who try to understand and prevent Salmonella contamination early in the tomato production process.

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November 7, 2023

A Diverse Federal Scientific Workforce Benefits All of Us

Johanna Chao Kreilick
Former President

President Biden sits at his desk in the Oval Office, signing a veto for (unrelated) legislation in June 2023.

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June 28, 2023

For the First Time Ever, the White House Adopts a Model Scientific Integrity Policy

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

Scientist in a lab

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March 1, 2023

Top Three Findings from the Latest UCS Survey of Federal Scientists

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

A closed white shutter door like the kind you might find on a storage unit is painted with the word GONE in black capital letters

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March 17, 2022

The EPA Is Shuttering its Online Archive: Why that Matters

UCS Science Network

this photo is of an endless-seeming stack of white organizers, taller than a person, stretching on both sides of a wooden floor--implying archives

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February 18, 2022

How the Biden Administration Can Protect Federal Environmental Information

UCS Science Network

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January 20, 2022

Biden USDA Must Do More to Rebuild a Diverse Science Workforce

Charlotte Kirk Baer
Former Contributor

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April 28, 2021

100 Days into Biden’s Presidency, Science Is Bouncing Back

Taryn MacKinney
Former Contributor

US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Susan Wynn releases quino into San Diego County

Joanna Gilkeson/USFWS

January 30, 2021

Federal Agencies Have Lost Hundreds of Scientists Since 2017. What Comes Next?

Taryn MacKinney
Former Contributor

Michael J. Ermarth/FDA

October 28, 2020

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

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

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October 19, 2020

Restoring Science, Protecting the Public: Recommendations for Federal Agencies in the Next Presidential Term

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

October 3, 2018

Trump’s USDA vs. Science

Ricardo Salvador
Former Contributor

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October 12, 2017

Conflicts of Interest? NOAA’s Nominees AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers, and Dr. Neil Jacobs of Panasonic

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

December 1, 2016

Science and the Politics of Fracking—and What’s Ahead

Yogin Kothari
Former Contributor

March 10, 2016

What’s Been Going On with the EPA’s Fracking Report?

Yogin Kothari
Former Contributor

June 5, 2015

Is Fracking Safe Now? What the EPA’s Fracking and Drinking Water Study Really Says

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

May 15, 2014

Of Manatees and Mandates: Celebrating Endangered Species Day

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

April 4, 2014

Any Port in a Storm: Public and Private Sector Funding for Science

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

February 18, 2014

The Secret Science Reform Act: Perhaps We Should Just Call it Catch-22

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

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