The transition to zero-emission freight must continue and accelerate. Electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs) produce ...

WASHINGTON—Following the illegal shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Elon Musk and his “DOGE” representatives have reportedly set their sights on dismantling the ...

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’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.

WASHINGTON (February 6, 2025) – Today, a bipartisan group of U.S. representatives introduced the Scientific Integrity (SI) Act. The SI Act is a crucial piece of legislation that would safeguard ...

WASHINGTON (February 5, 2025)—The Trump administration has placed federal employees working on programs that serve environmental justice communities, including staff from the Environmental Protection ...

Julie McNamara is a deputy policy director with the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Her research focuses on policies and measures that facilitate a rapid, sustained, and ...

Juan Declet-Barreto is Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability for the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. At UCS, he researches, maps, analyzes, communicates, and ...

Every new administration makes updates and changes to publicly available web sites. Presidential administrations have different appointed officials, different priorities, and different language for ...

If you’ve encountered these concepts and aren’t totally sure what they mean, or how they’re different from each other—we got you. You may know that the effects of climate change and other ...

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 ...