First Trump Administration

An intern doing scientific research in a US Navy laboratory.

Photo: John F. Williams, US Navy/CC BY 2.0, Flickr

June 5, 2019

Understanding the New Restrictions on Fetal Tissue Research, and Attacks on the Scientists Who Use It

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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May 30, 2019

Trump Administration Puts Offshore Oil Rig Workers’ Lives at Risk

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

Photo: Julian Osley/Geograph

May 28, 2019

You Can’t Ignore the Future: 5 Reasons Climate Science Looks Beyond 2040

Brenda Ekwurzel
Former Staff

Photo: EPA

May 22, 2019

Children’s Health Research Centers Protect Our Kids. The EPA Just Defunded Them.

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

NOAA/Flickr

May 9, 2019

Trump Administration Outdoes Itself on Climate Change Denial, Insists Arctic Warming is Good

Joel Clement
Former Contributor

Photo: Airman Connor J Marth/US Air Force

April 26, 2019

On Worker Memorial Day: Remember the Fallen and Continue the Fight for Workplace Safety and Health

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

Photo: C-SPAN

April 24, 2019

From Profound Conflicts of Interest to a Blind Eye for Harassment, Barry Myers Is the Wrong Choice for NOAA

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

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April 12, 2019

Uncharted Territory: The EPA’s Science Advisors Just Called Out Administrator Wheeler

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

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April 12, 2019

Prodded by Coal Industry, the EPA Decides Mercury Is Fine, Just Fine. Remind Them: It’s Not.

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

Credit: J. Rogers/UCS

April 5, 2019

5 Wind Power Facts (From Better Sources Than President Trump)

John Rogers
Associate Director, Energy Analytics

Photo: GaryAlvis/iStock

April 5, 2019

Xenophobia Run Amok at the National Institutes of Health

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

LANCE CHEUNG

March 29, 2019

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

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

NASA

March 14, 2019

Trump’s Proposed 2020 Budget Takes Aim at Science (Again)

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

USEPA/Flickr

March 14, 2019

A Comment Guide for Fighting the EPA’s Attacks on Mercury Standards and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

March 13, 2019

Bury the Science, Then Claim It Doesn’t Exist: Interior Department Undermines Arctic Drilling Review

Joel Clement
Former Contributor

Photo: US Coast Guard/Wikimedia

February 28, 2019

Remember the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster? The Trump Administration Wants You to Forget

Joel Clement
Former Contributor

Photo: Adam Markham

February 19, 2019

Chaco Canyon at Risk: Interior Nominee Bernhardt Wants to Drill on Lands Sacred to Tribes

Adam Markham
Former Staff

Photo: Wikimedia commons

February 8, 2019

How the Government Shutdown Shredded Indian Health Services

Derrick Z. Jackson
Former Fellow

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February 6, 2019

Kids and Mercury Don’t Mix. You Now Have 2 Days Left to Tell the Trump Administration.

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

February 4, 2019

Will the Real State of the Union Please Stand Up? 7 Things President Trump Won’t Say

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

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February 1, 2019

Independent Science Takes Another Hit at the EPA: New Science Advisory Board Members Announced

Genna Reed
Former Staff

Photo: Barbara Barrett

January 28, 2019

The Game is Changing: How Two Years of Trump Has Energized the Science Community

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

Anthony Eyring/UCS

January 28, 2019

Two Years of Attacks on Science are Putting Public Health and Safety at Risk

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

Photo: USDA

January 23, 2019

Shutdown Fiasco Compounds Trump Assault on Kids’ Lunches

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director