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 ...

Justice means addressing past and current wrongs. All efforts to live with, adapt to, and prepare for the changing climate must center environmental justice, climate justice, and energy justice. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edwin Lyman is an internationally recognized expert on nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism as well as nuclear power safety and security. He is a member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials ...

From 2017 to 2021, observers tracked more than 1,400 changes to the language and available information on federal web ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

WASHINGTON—According to data released today by independent U.S. government agencies NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2024 was the hottest year on record globally with ...

Tomorrow, the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services will hold a confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. Below is a statement by Dr. Laura ...