WASHINGTON (February 6, 2025) – Today, a bipartisan group of U.S. representatives introduced the Scientific Integrity (SI) Act. The SI Act is a crucial piece of legislation that would safeguard ...

Julie McNamara is a deputy policy director with the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Her research focuses on policies and measures that facilitate a rapid, sustained, and ...

Juan Declet-Barreto is Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability for the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. At UCS, he researches, maps, analyzes, communicates, and ...

WASHINGTON—Following the illegal shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Elon Musk and his “DOGE” representatives have reportedly set their sights on dismantling the ...

WASHINGTON (February 6, 2025)— On behalf of the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) leaders notified Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights employees on ...

WASHINGTON (February 5, 2025)—The Trump administration has placed federal employees working on programs that serve environmental justice communities, including staff from the Environmental Protection ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has nominated meteorologist Dr. Neil Jacobs to serve as administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency which operates under ...

Last night, at the behest of President Donald Trump, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a sweeping freeze on the flow of congressionally approved federal funding. The decision has had a ...

If you’ve encountered these concepts and aren’t totally sure what they mean, or how they’re different from each other—we got you. You may know that the effects of climate change and other ...

Assessing the key different types of justice (distributive, procedural, and restorative) within the climate and energy movements can be challenging. A UCS collaboration with community partners ...

Rachel Cleetus is the policy director with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She leads the program’s efforts in designing effective and equitable policies to address ...

Every new administration makes updates and changes to publicly available web sites. Presidential administrations have different appointed officials, different priorities, and different language for ...