public health

A person holds a sign reading "we are your doctors, teachers, entertainers, brothers, sisters, friends. WE ARE HUMAN!" as they attend a Washington, DC, rally supporting Trans Day of Visibility in 2025.

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October 31, 2025

President Trump Is Using Lies to Attack Trans Kids and Endanger Their Health: Here Are the Facts

Michelle Rama-Poccia
Bilingual Writer and Podcast Host

group photo of advocates smiling after their success in getting RECA passed; they all wear matching yellow T-shirts that read, "We are the unknowing, unwilling, uncompensated victims of the Cold War"

Lilly Adams/UCS

October 6, 2025

After Decades, Relief for Some Harmed by the Nuclear Weapons Industry

Lilly Adams
Senior Outreach Coordinator

a nurse bandages a patient after a vaccination

September 22, 2025

The Empty Promises and Grim Reality of “MAHA”

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

a microphone in the foreground, a blurred auditorium in the background

Joao Cruz / Unsplash

September 9, 2025

President Trump Is Shutting Out the US Public from Government Decisions

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

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July 23, 2025

Who Really Pays for Data Centers Powered By Fossil Fuels?

Maria Chavez
Energy Analyst

stacked photos of ICE officers planning arrests over an image of people protesting cuts at the CDC.

(Top) John Moore, (Bottom) Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

May 7, 2025

A Cruel Tradeoff: Building the “Amazon of Deportation” While Tearing Down Health and Human Services

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

three people working in a scientific lab in masks and lab coats

Walter Otto / Unsplash

April 15, 2025

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

Guest Commentary

April 10, 2025

RFK Jr.’s Incompetence Is Costing Kids’ Lives

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

April 9, 2025

Why the Climate Accountability Act Matters to Me—and Wisconsin

Lee Shaver
Senior Energy Analyst

two scientists in lab coats

National Cancer Institute/Unsplash

April 1, 2025

Trump’s NIH Ditches Its Scientific Integrity Policy. That’s Bad News for Public Trust in Government Science

Liz Borkowski
Science Network Contributor

a woman in a mask and lab coat gives a woman in a mask a shot in a medical office

Joe Raedle / Getty Images

March 19, 2025

One Month of RFK Jr.: Empty “MAHA” Promises Hide Attacks on Public Health

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

photo of a doctor seated at a desk, wearing a lab coat, mask, and stethoscope, listening to the heartbeat of a young girl. The girl is standing with her back to the doctor, who is lifting the back of the girl's shirt in order to apply the stethoscope.

Gustavo Fring/Pexels

February 18, 2025

Why Federal Radiation Regulations Can No Longer Ignore Women and Girls

Chanese A. Forté
Scientist

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January 30, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Is Unfit to Lead US Public Health Agencies

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

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January 29, 2025

What the Federal Health Agency Gag Order Means for Public Health

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

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January 16, 2025

New Analysis Shows Public Health Impacts of Proposed Gas Plants in Wisconsin

Maria Chavez
Energy Analyst

A woman in medical scrubs sits across from another woman

Maskot / Getty Images

December 19, 2024

When States Suppress Maternal Mortality Data, Pregnant People Pay the Price

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

a graphic displaying multiple forms of pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

December 18, 2024

EPA Released a Cumulative Impacts Framework. Where Do We Go From Here?

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

ethylene oxide hotspots in MN

December 10, 2024

Ask a Scientist: Chemical Safety Matters for Real People’s Lives—The Ethylene Oxide Story

Seth Michaels
Senior Science Policy Writer

An active oil refinery located next to a single family home in Wilmington, California on September 21, 2022.

Allison Dinner/Getty Images

October 16, 2024

Introducing the Community Guide to Cumulative Impacts

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

Wikimedia Commons

October 7, 2024

EPA Needs to Listen to the Public. Will New Public Participation Guidance Help?

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

Kyger Creek Power Plant viewed from a parking lot off of Ohio State Route 7.

FunksBrother/Wikimedia Commons

September 30, 2024

Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

Sign from Science March 2017

Kristie Ellickson

July 9, 2024

Supreme Court Sidelines Science, Threatens Public Health: These Rules-in-Progress Show What’s at Stake

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

David Chavez/Unsplash

July 1, 2024

Fossil Fuels Must Go: Re-inventing US Transportation

Maria Cecilia Pinto de Moura
Scientist

Remnants of burned houses in a neighborhood in Paradise, California, 8 months after the 2019 Camp Fire.

Frank Schulenburg/Wikimedia Commons

April 29, 2024

New California Legislation Would Help Us Better Understand Wildfire Health Impacts

Daniel Barad
Western States Policy Manager