Second Trump Administration

A great blue heron catches a white perch on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

Derrick Z. Jackson

July 7, 2025

Administration Cuts Would Leave No Refuge for the Wildlife Refuges

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

Researchers monitor severe weather on their computers

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images

July 3, 2025

NOAA’s Weather and Climate Science Is Under Relentless Attack from Trump Administration. Will Congress Stand Up for Us?

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

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July 2, 2025

Heatwave Exposes How Trump Administration Cuts Endanger Workers and Energy-Burdened Communities

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

A scientist explains their research on wildfires at a public science fair in New York City in 2023.

Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images

July 1, 2025

Scientists IN Society: From Isolation to Engagement

UCS Science Network

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

photo of US negotiators on the left side of a table and Iranian negotiators on the right side; the two countries' flags stand at the head of the table and light in shining into the high-ceiling room from two large windows above the flags

US Department of State

June 26, 2025

The US Attack on Iran May Have Damaged Disarmament Efforts More Than Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities

Laura Grego
Research Director, Senior Scientist

The front façade of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.

Yuhan Zhang/Wikipedia

June 26, 2025

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

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

three scientists in lab coats and goggles look at a tablet together

June 23, 2025

OSTP Has a Choice to Make: Science or Politics?

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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June 18, 2025

What We’re Watching: Coming Historic Heat Plus Acute Risks Could Make Rest of June a Hot Mess

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

Brandon Bell/Getty Images

June 17, 2025

Worsening Wildfires Contribute to Increasingly Unaffordable Insurance and Housing Costs

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Mario Tama/Getty Images

June 13, 2025

In This Knife’s Edge Authoritarian Moment, Say “No Kings” to President Trump

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

Department of Homeland Security

June 12, 2025

5 Actions Needed After President Trump’s FEMA Review Council Meeting

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy 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
Former Staff

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

June 9, 2025

With Proposed Budget Bill, House Crushes Clean Energy—And Risks Creating an Actual Energy Emergency

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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

aerial view of a Volkswagen automobile assembly plant is seen on March 20, 2024 in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

June 2, 2025

The Future of US Battery Manufacturing Is at Stake

Jessica Dunn
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

Mark Newman/Getty Images

May 28, 2025

The Crumbling of Bedrock Environmental Policy: We Need to Protect NEPA

David Watkins
Director of Government Affairs, Climate & Energy Program

A hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center--an office under NOAA--tracks a developing storm on six separate computer monitors.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

May 22, 2025

One NOAA: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

UCS Science Network

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May 22, 2025

How the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Pursuing a Liability Waiver

Kate Cell
Senior Climate Campaign Manager

Milos Bicanski/Getty Images

May 21, 2025

Wildfires Are Getting Worse. Trump’s Science Cuts Could Threaten Our Response.

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

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
Former Staff

Julie Joseph/FEMA

May 15, 2025

12,000 Reasons Why the Trump Administration Must Be Stopped from Dismantling FEMA

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst