Congress

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October 15, 2024

The Election Is Almost Here—But Where Is the Farm Bill?

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

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Joe Newman

October 10, 2024

After the Election, Congress Must Help Victims of Radiation Exposure by Passing RECA

Lilly Adams
Senior Outreach Coordinator

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June 26, 2024

Congress Could Save $100B and Make Us Safer by Cancelling Sentinel

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

Speaker Johnson addresses the House of Representatives in October 2023.

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June 4, 2024

The (Legal) Way Congress Can Undo Federal Rules that Protect Us

Lisa Van Theemsche
Washington Representative II

Lilly Adams

May 8, 2024

The House Has Less Than Two Weeks to Save RECA

Lilly Adams
Senior Outreach Coordinator

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April 19, 2024

Earth Day Is a Day to Celebrate the Environmental Progress We’ve Made in Recent Years

Chitra Kumar
Managing Director, Climate and Energy Program

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January 30, 2024

For People Who Have Been Poisoned by Radiation, the Fight Continues in 2024

Lilly Adams
Senior Outreach Coordinator

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September 21, 2023

Nuclear Frontline Communities Understand Cumulative Burdens—Let’s Get Policymakers On The Same Page

Chanese A. Forté
Scientist

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July 25, 2023

Scientific Integrity Act Re-introduced in Congress to Protect Federal Science

Anita Desikan
Former Senior Analyst, Center for Science and Democracy

Fire consumes a forest of pine trees, and smoke fills the air during the 2013 Alder Fire in Yellowstone National Park

Mike Lewelling, National Park Service/Flickr

May 11, 2023

As Danger Season Begins, Congress Must Pass Stronger Wildfire Policies

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

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April 24, 2023

Using the Debt Ceiling to Advance Fossil Fuels Over Renewables is Bad Faith Bargaining

David Watkins
Director of Government Affairs, Climate & Energy Program

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USDA/Flickr

January 27, 2023

As Congress Prepares for a Farm Bill, Will There Be Justice for Black Farmers?

Omanjana Goswami
Interdisciplinary Scientist

House Oversight and Reform Committee

October 12, 2022

Congress Releases New Evidence of Big Oil Climate Disinformation

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

DENNIS SCHROEDER/NREL

July 29, 2022

Why is Congress’s Climate Breakthrough Such a Big Deal? Because Without It, We’d Be Irreparably Off Course.

Julie McNamara
Senior Energy Analyst

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March 30, 2022

Oil and Gas Industry Hypocrisy Laid Bare By Russia’s War on Ukraine

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

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March 16, 2022

As War Rages in Ukraine, Policymakers Must Reject Fossil Fuel Industry Spin

Julie McNamara
Senior Energy Analyst

National Renewable Energy Lab/Flickr

March 1, 2022

Has the Biden Administration Showed Up for the Voters Who Showed Up for Him?

Sophia Marjanovic
Former Contributor

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Old Codger Jim/Flickr

October 27, 2021

William Shatner, Joe Manchin, and a Rare Trip to Space and Back

Brenda Ekwurzel
Senior Climate Scientist, Director of Climate Science

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October 27, 2021

Fossil Fuel CEOs to Testify in Congress: Five Greenwashing Claims Debunked

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

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October 26, 2021

The Day of Reckoning for the Oil Industry?

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

US Department of Energy

October 22, 2021

The Bar for Climate Ambition is Set by Science, Not Congressional Politics

Julie McNamara
Senior Energy Analyst

US Coast Guard

October 19, 2021

The Build Back Better Act is a Bridge to the Future We Need. Senator Manchin, Don’t Blow It Up!

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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October 7, 2021

Ask a Scientist: Will Congress Finally Tackle the Climate Crisis?

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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October 1, 2021

Reconciliation and the Climate Crisis: Failure Is Not an Option

Erika Spanger-Siegfried
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics