federal science

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January 14, 2025

Trump’s Pick for Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, is Wrong on Purpose. Here are the Facts.

David Watkins
Director of Government Affairs, Climate & Energy Program

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January 14, 2025

What’s at Stake If the Data at Federal Agencies Disappears?

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

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January 13, 2025

Organizations Call on Senators to Consider Nominees’ Respect for Science

Liz Borkowski
Science Network Contributor

Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Scott Pruitt To Become EPA Administrator

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January 2, 2025

How to Vet Presidential Nominees for Their Science Savvy—a Handy Checklist for Senators

Melissa Finucane
Vice President of Science & Innovation

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December 11, 2024

Three Efforts to Preserve Government Data as a New Trump Administration Approaches

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

White House

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December 9, 2024

What Is Scientific Integrity—and How Does It Keep All of Us Safe?

Christopher Williams
Research Director

Scientists looks at COVID-19 samples in a lab.

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November 21, 2024

Why Trust in Science Matters

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

A 2020 U.S. Census form.

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November 14, 2024

Federal Government Implements More Inclusive Standards for Collecting Race and Ethnicity Data

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

A bald eagle stands in a wetlands wildlife refuge.

Derrick Z. Jackson

October 17, 2024

Wetland Protections Remain Bogged Down in Mystery

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

President Biden sits at his desk in the Oval Office, signing a veto for (unrelated) legislation in June 2023.

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June 28, 2023

For the First Time Ever, the White House Adopts a Model Scientific Integrity Policy

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

Scientist in a lab

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March 1, 2023

Top Three Findings from the Latest UCS Survey of Federal Scientists

Anita Desikan
Former Senior Analyst, Center for Science and Democracy

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March 17, 2022

The EPA Is Shuttering its Online Archive: Why that Matters

UCS Science Network

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February 18, 2022

How the Biden Administration Can Protect Federal Environmental Information

UCS Science Network

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January 20, 2022

Biden USDA Must Do More to Rebuild a Diverse Science Workforce

Charlotte Kirk Baer
Former Contributor

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April 28, 2021

100 Days into Biden’s Presidency, Science Is Bouncing Back

Taryn MacKinney
Former Contributor

US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Susan Wynn releases quino into San Diego County

Joanna Gilkeson/USFWS

January 30, 2021

Federal Agencies Have Lost Hundreds of Scientists Since 2017. What Comes Next?

Taryn MacKinney
Former Contributor

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October 28, 2020

A New and Direct Assault on Federal Scientists: an Executive Order Designed to Politicize Public Service

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

October 3, 2018

Trump’s USDA vs. Science

Ricardo Salvador
Former Director, Food & Environment Program

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October 12, 2017

Conflicts of Interest? NOAA’s Nominees AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers, and Dr. Neil Jacobs of Panasonic

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

December 1, 2016

Science and the Politics of Fracking—and What’s Ahead

Yogin Kothari
Former Contributor

March 10, 2016

What’s Been Going On with the EPA’s Fracking Report?

Yogin Kothari
Former Contributor

June 5, 2015

Is Fracking Safe Now? What the EPA’s Fracking and Drinking Water Study Really Says

Gretchen Goldman
Former Contributor

May 15, 2014

Of Manatees and Mandates: Celebrating Endangered Species Day

Gretchen Goldman
Former Contributor

April 4, 2014

Any Port in a Storm: Public and Private Sector Funding for Science

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor