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

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

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 ...

The science is clear: climate change is happening. We are the cause. We need to act now. Table of Contents The science is clear: climate change is happening. We are the cause. We need to act now.

John Rogers is a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists with expertise in clean energy technologies and policies and a focus on solar, wind, and natural gas. He co-managed the ...

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 ...

Nuclear weapons are still here—and they’re still an existential risk. Nine countries possess nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and ...

Engineers and advocates, working together to build a clean, modern, more equitable transportation system. The Clean Transportation program at the Union of Concerned Scientists includes scientists, ...

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

Coal, gas, and other fossil fuels are neither sustainable nor safe. We shouldn’t use them. Coal, oil, and methane gas are fossil fuels formed over time from the remains of living organisms. In the ...

New technologies are redefining how we move around—but are they all positive changes? In 1908, the first affordable, mass-produced automobile rolled off assembly lines: the Ford Model T. Its arrival ...

As a senior scientist with, director of, and now advisor to the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador has over four decades of experience working with ...