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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

UCS Center for Science and Democracy Director Dr. Jennifer Jones joins Jess to discuss what the second Trump presidency means for science, and what you can do to defend science.

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 (January 21, 2025)—President Donald Trump yesterday directed agencies to begin developing action plans to roll back regulations that affect “consumer choice in vehicles,” a thinly veiled ...

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 ...