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 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 ...

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 ...

Certain states require written disclosures for nonprofit organizations soliciting contributions. Individual state disclosures are below. Florida: A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL ...

On March 4, 1969, the day on which the Union of Concerned Scientists held its very first public event at MIT, the role and mission of the nascent group was envisioned in a statement entitled "Beyond ...

The science advocacy movement is gaining momentum. By working in collaboration with our partners, the Union of Concerned Scientists Science Network helps build the power of this movement and broadens ...

Terry L. Root is a senior fellow emerita at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University and a professor, by courtesy, in the Biology Department. She researches how wild animals and ...

Sam Wilson is a senior vehicles analyst in the Clean Transportation Program, focusing primarily on regulations, laws, and policies that accelerate the transition to zero-emissions trucks and buses. A ...

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 ...

Charlotte Levy is a PhD candidate working in the Goodale and Fahey labs at Cornell University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She is a biogeochemist studying the global carbon ...

In the early 1990s, we realized we had to double our office space in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This gave us an opportunity to design an office that illustrates how energy efficiency can be put into ...

Ariana Tsiattalos is an environmental scientist, ecologist, conservationist, and activist. Currently a wetland scientist for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), she earned ...