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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 continued production and use of fossil fuels threatens our climate, public health, and human rights. A fossil fuel phaseout is necessary to build a healthier, safer, and more just world, and any ...

The batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs) and store energy are vital to cutting harmful emissions and they should be as low-impact as possible The very much needed transition to EVs is underway ...

Hundreds of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—one of the premier science agencies in the federal government— were laid off today, continuing an unrelenting ...

President Donald Trump’s first month in office has been marked by a defiance of laws and judicial rulings never seen before, amounting to a constitutional crisis, according to many legal experts.

BATON ROUGE, La. (February 13, 2025) — Today, Earthjustice filed a motion on behalf of the Alliance for Affordable Energy and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) asking Louisiana utility ...

President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order paving the way for federal agencies to reclassify tens of thousands of federal employees as at-will workers, making them easier to fire. The ...

The US food system should be providing healthy, sustainably produced food for all. Instead, it’s damaging our health, our land and water, our communities, and farmers and food workers themselves. We ...

UCS has been documenting the problem of political interference in science in the US federal government since its landmark 2004 Scientist Statement on Scientific Integrity. In addition to tracking ...

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 ...