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 ...

UCS Center for Science and Democracy Director Dr. Jennifer Jones joins Jess to discuss what the second Trump presidency means ...

WASHINGTON—On his first day in office, President Trump clearly signaled, with an onslaught of executive orders, his intent to dismantle decades worth of science-based public health and environmental ...

WASHINGTON (January 20, 2025)—As part of what is expected to be a spate of deeply anti-scientific and destructive executive orders released his first week in office, President Trump announced today ...

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WASHINGTON—Dr. Gretchen Goldman, an environmental engineer who previously served in the Department of Transportation, White House and Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), will be joining UCS on ...

The US Supreme Court decided Honolulu's lawsuit seeking to hold Sunoco, Shell and ExxonMobil accountable for climate ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (Jan. 13, 2025) – Scientists are urging members of Congress to use their legislative power to defend science, fact-based policymaking and bedrock science-based policies that protect ...

The defense secretary job is as difficult as it is critical. Pete Hegseth, a television presenter and author, doesn’t have ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today released its annual report tallying the toll of extreme weather and climate disasters in the United States for 2024.