First Trump Administration

Damage from Hurricane Sandy in Mantoloking, New Jersey in 2012.

June 1, 2017

The 2017 Hurricane Season Begins: Here Are 3 Alarming Things I’m Watching

Astrid Caldas
Senior Climate Scientist

UCS/Anthony Eyring

June 1, 2017

A Shameful Act: President Trump’s Likely Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

chere/Shutterstock

May 25, 2017

4 Ways President Trump’s Budget Takes Aim at FEMA and Disaster Preparedness

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Photo: Marcus Kauffman/Flickr

May 24, 2017

On Bioenergy, Budgets, and Why Legislating Scientific Facts Is Never a Good Idea

Peter Frumhoff
Former Director of Science and Policy and Chief Climate Scientist

United Soybean Board/Flickr

May 24, 2017

The Trump Budget Is an Affront to Farmers (and All of Us)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

May 22, 2017

Congress vs. Trump: Are the President’s Anti-Science Budget Priorities Headed for Another Defeat?

Rob Cowin
Former Contributor

May 8, 2017

Advisory Committee Shakeup Targets Independent Science and Scientists

Genna Reed
Former Staff

Scott Bauer/USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

April 25, 2017

Five Ways President Trump Has Failed Rural America in the First 100 Days

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Photo: Wikimedia

April 21, 2017

Why Scientists Are Fighting Back: We’ve Had Enough of Trump’s War on Facts

Ken Kimmell
Former President

Photo: EPA

April 7, 2017

Here’s What the EPA Budget Cuts in a Leaked Memo Mean for Health and Environmental Justice

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Des Moines Water Works

April 7, 2017

Americans Are Worried about Water Pollution (And They Should Be)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

March 30, 2017

Climate Enters Uncharted Territory—But We Can Prepare for the Risks Global Warming Brings

Astrid Caldas
Senior Climate Scientist

Momentum on the path to our clean energy future. Credit: Dennis Schroeder, DOE/NREL

March 28, 2017

The Clean Power Plan Has Already Accomplished One of Its Most Important Tasks

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

March 28, 2017

President Trump’s All-Out Attack on Climate Policy

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

US Department of Agriculture/Flickr

March 22, 2017

Trump’s "Skinny" Budget Would Starve Farmers of Support, Leave Kids and Seniors Hungry

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

March 20, 2017

Counting the Attacks on Science by the Trump Administration and Congress

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

March 17, 2017

Secretary of Defense James Mattis: The Lone Climate Change Soldier in this Administration’s Cabinet

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

Photos by Leroy Woodson and Frank Aleksandrowicz, NARA

March 15, 2017

Trump Administration Attacks Public Health Protections with Proposed Cuts to EPA Budget

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.

March 15, 2017

How to Make Disasters More Costly and Harmful: Cut FEMA’s Budget

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

UCS staff Standing Up for Science, Copley Square, Boston, February 2017

March 14, 2017

Stand Up for Science: 5 Ways Scientists Can Make Their Voices Heard

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

NOAA

March 6, 2017

President Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts: Hurting NOAA Hurts America

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

Photo: Marine Jaouen/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Flickr

March 3, 2017

President Trump’s Opening Salvos on Clean Water—and Other Public Health Safeguards

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

A dozen doozies are within this letter by Richard Lindzen to President Trump.

March 3, 2017

A Dozen Doozies: Setting the Record Straight on Richard Lindzen’s Letter to President Trump

Brenda Ekwurzel
Director of Scientific Excellence

Wikimedia

March 2, 2017

Beryllium Exposure: Trump Administration Delays Protecting Workers from a Devastating Risk

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director