Justice means addressing past and current wrongs. All efforts to live with, adapt to, and prepare for the changing climate ...

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 ...

From 2017 to 2021, observers tracked more than 1,400 changes to the language and available information on federal web ...

Paula García is a Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst and Energy Justice Lead in the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She evaluates energy resource and climate solutions in ...

The US food system should be providing healthy, sustainably produced food for all. Instead, it’s damaging our health, our land and water, our communities, and farmers and food workers themselves. We ...

Engineers and advocates, working together to build a clean, modern, more equitable transportation system. The Clean Transportation program at the Union of Concerned Scientists includes scientists, ...

Coal, gas, and other fossil fuels are neither sustainable nor safe. We shouldn’t use them. Coal, oil, and methane gas are fossil fuels formed over time from the remains of living organisms. In the ...

We’re working at the federal and state level to make sure robust, independent science informs decisions to build a healthier, safer, and more just society. Table of Contents We’re working at the ...

When the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the destruction was unlike anything experienced before. Tens of thousands of people died instantly. An entire city was destroyed in ...

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.

Below is the text of the Faculty Statement written at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December 1968. This document was originally signed by 50 senior faculty members, including the heads ...