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 ...

UCS Center for Science and Democracy Director Dr. Jennifer Jones joins Jess to discuss what the second Trump presidency means ...

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 ...

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 20, 2025)—As part of what is expected to be a spate of deeply anti-scientific and destructive executive orders released his first week in office, President Trump announced today ...

The science is clear: climate change is happening. We are the cause. We need to act now. Table of Contents The science is clear: climate change is happening. We are the cause. We need to act now.

The US Supreme Court decided Honolulu's lawsuit seeking to hold Sunoco, Shell and ExxonMobil accountable for climate ...

The defense secretary job is as difficult as it is critical. Pete Hegseth, a television presenter and author, doesn’t have ...

Ever wonder if agriculture and green energy can work together? The answer is yes, and Jess talks with UCS experts Dr. Angel Fernandez-Bou and Vivian Yang about farming and the future of energy in the ...

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 energy business is one of the largest industries in the world. Major fossil fuel companies routinely make billion-dollar profits, extracting and distributing oil, gas, and coal. Unfortunately, ...