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January 27, 2020

5 Quotes Capturing the Debate Over Dietary Guidelines

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

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January 17, 2020

Expect Low Carbs and Low Credibility at Next Week’s Dietary Guidelines Meeting

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

Fabrice Florin

December 17, 2019

Environmental Justice in 2019: Impacts and Anniversaries

Adrienne Hollis
Former Contributor

A FEMA trailer decorated for an environmental justice mission. Photo credit: Leah Mahan, maker of the film Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek.

December 17, 2019

Activism and Action in 2019, a Banner Year for Environmental Justice

Adrienne Hollis
Former Contributor

November 18, 2019

2019 Lancet Countdown US Policy Brief Pieces Together Climate Change’s Public Health Effects

Adrienne Hollis
Former Contributor

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November 12, 2019

Our Unhealthy Democracy: A New Report and a Call to Action

Michael Latner
Former UCS Fellow

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October 2, 2019

New Studies on Red and Processed Meat Are a Big, Fat Nothingburger

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

Woman in striped tank top examining orange canister in supermarket aisle

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September 20, 2019

Corporate Profit Motives Shape Our Food Environment, and It’s Killing Us

UCS Science Network

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August 16, 2019

The Scientific Integrity Act and the Importance of Storytelling in Science Communication

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

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August 2, 2019

So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, Says the EPA to Southwest Alaska

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

Photo: Ma. William Carraway/Wikimedia Commons

August 1, 2019

An Absence of Energy Leadership in a Climate Crisis

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

Photo: USDA.

August 1, 2019

Trump Administration Sidesteps Congress to Cut SNAP. Again.

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

July 30, 2019

Tackling Health Disparities in St. Louis

UCS Science Network

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July 22, 2019

Our Children Deserve Better: Trump’s EPA Refuses to Ban Brain-Damaging Pesticide. Again.

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

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June 25, 2019

The Masked Syndrome: HIV, Health Disparities, and the Two-Pronged Approach

UCS Science Network

Photo: FEMA

June 10, 2019

Under Our Noses: PFAS Contamination in Southern Colorado

UCS Science Network

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April 30, 2019

Deadly Shooting at California Synagogue—Where is the Gun Violence Research, CDC?

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

LANCE CHEUNG

March 29, 2019

Nine Reasons to Oppose the Trump Administration’s Proposed SNAP Changes

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

Photo: US Air Force

March 21, 2019

Illinois’ Energy Future: Less Coal, More Renewables

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue attends a Farmer's Roundtable where President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America April 25, 2017, at the White House in Washington, D.C.. USDA photo by Preston Keres

December 20, 2018

Trump Administration Seeks to Undermine SNAP After Congress Negotiates Bipartisan Farm Bill

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

December 13, 2018

As the Dietary Guidelines Process Begins, Health Experts Want to Keep Science Front and Center

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

Photo: USDA

November 9, 2018

The Dinner Table is the Latest Battleground for Trump’s Attacks on Immigrant Families

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

Photo: M&R Glasgow

November 8, 2018

After Pittsburgh, Thousand Oaks, Will New Congress Push for Gun Safety Research?

Charise Johnson
Former Contributor

Photo: FEMO

November 7, 2018

Climate Changes Health: The Backstory is the Front Story

UCS Science Network