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—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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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—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.

Food production in the United States is at a crossroads. For decades, the public policies and big corporations that shape our food and agricultural system have pressed farmers to manage their land ...

The energy business is one of the largest industries in the world. Major fossil fuel companies routinely make billion-dollar profits, extracting and distributing oil, gas, and coal. Unfortunately, ...

Stacy Woods (she/her) is the research director for the Food & Environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. In her role, Dr. Woods directs research across food, agriculture, and ...