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The Trump administration fired and replaced the agency's panel of clean air experts, while the children's health committee has been inactive since all of its members' terms expired in February.

Tomorrow will mark the first time the Trump administration’s newly selected Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee members will hold a public meeting. Statement by UCS President Dr. Gretchen Goldman.

Injunction Halts Effort to Unlawfully Remove History and Science from Park Displays

The scientific community is fighting a proposed change to research funding. Let's keep this momentum going to take on more attacks on science.

The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to join the public launch of Science Rising, a new initiative mobilizing the science community to speak out and take action against the Trump administrati...

What can scientists do in the face of assaults on our democracy? RISE UP!

This post originally appeared on If You Can Keep It, a publication of Protect Democracy. The second Trump administration has set about dismantling the institutions of American science. Over the ...

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One day in graduate school, I confessed to my fellow students that I had never been outside of the United States. They hailed from all over the world, so I was embarrassed to admit it. “You don’t need...

This is an attempt to silence independent scientists, shut down evidence-based decision making, and keep the public in the dark.

Science and democracy are under attack. We have the tools, knowledge, and lessons from history to preserve critical services and protect scientific truth—by building powerful parallel institutions.

A federal judge allowed key parts of a lawsuit accusing Musk of wielding significant government power without Senate confirmation to move forward.

Advocates say Lee Zeldin’s EPA has rolled back protections and cut staff and funding, putting health at risk

What does it mean to defend science in Washington?On this episode of the Scientista Podcast, Monica Medina and Dr. Sweta Chakraborty sit down with Gretchen Goldman, President and CEO of the Union of C...

The administrator appointed industry representatives and a member of a group that disputes mainstream climate science.

UCS Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Endangerment Finding Repeal

Coalition Files Lawsuit to Challenge Censorship, Erasure of American History and Science at National Parks

After one year of President Trump's second term, let's challenge ourselves to imagine and bring to life a much, much better future.

The policies that govern how we get from place to place are usually immune to partisanship. This administration is using them to advance Trump’s authoritarian agenda.

Changes in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory methods prioritise the interests of polluting industries at the expense of public health, say Gretchen Goldman and colleagues This mont...

Trump administration has escalated its violent behavior. A U.S. citizen was killed by federal law enforcement agents while exercising his constitutional right to free speech and peaceful assembly. Sta...

Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.