Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

After much public advocacy to reduce future impacts and invest in preparedness, in 2018 Congress passed critical legislation that established the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities “BRIC” grant program to allow the President to set aside 6 percent of the DRF specifically for pre-disaster, preparedness and resilience efforts.

Climate Change

Scientific American

JULY 25, 2025

He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. He holds dual masters degrees in journalism and in Earth and environmental sciences from Columbia University.

Sea Level

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It has long been a given that Texas is a no-go area for Democrats, but in the 2018 Senate election, Ted Cruz, a potent climate denier, was nearly unseated by the progressive Democrat and former rockstar Beto ‘O Rourke.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

27] A large hole in Friedmans Maximization Model is his assumption that business and its profit calculations are separable from the political system that is supposed to adopt laws to control pollution and other externalities. As Paul Hawken wrote more than 30 years ago: There is no polite way to say business is destroying the world. [39]

Law

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Climate change is exposing land formerly covered by ice, heightening political tensions on the island nation—and in the waters surrounding it as sea ice also disappears. He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. 1 ( July/August 2025 ), p.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For more on the legal and political twists and turns in the history of the Endangerment Finding, please check out this blogpost: Endangered Science: Why Global Warming Emissions Are Covered by the Clean Air Act. Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions can limit future warming and associated increases in many risks.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2025

agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate. The scientific, legal, and political turmoil is weighing on Bayers top executives.

Biotechnology

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. “The targets have to be capable of meeting their contribution to keeping temperature rise to 1.5 As a matter of law, states must set their highest possible ambition due to the urgency of the crisis.”

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

However, during the 2018-2020 time period, NWDO [Northwest District Office] staff became aware that the operator had stopped operating the wells and had started another business venture. That we are still leaving this up to taxpayers and political whims. Click Here for written testimony.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2025

Despite repeated assurances from the IAEA that Iran remained in compliance with the agreement, the Trump administration in 2018 withdrew from the JCPOA and reimposed heavy sanctions. Iran agreed to substantial safeguards on its activities.

2003

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

I began paying close attention to Musk in 2018, when he won a bid to provide high-speed transportation between downtown Chicago and OHare airport. Infrastructure projects in California and New York are coming in for politically-motivated attacks. Explaining those doubts helped turn political and public opinion against the plan.

Politics

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 2, 2025

Cara Daggett, an associate professor of political science at Virginia Tech University, coined the term petro-masculinty in a paper she published in 2018. Read the full story at The 19th.

2018

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

Below are UCSs comments to the FEMA Review Council, in which we underscore that any reforms to FEMA must be guided by science, equity, and the experience of disaster survivors, and not by political ideology.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

I began paying close attention to Musk in 2018, when he won a bid to provide high-speed transportation between downtown Chicago and OHare airport. Infrastructure projects in California and New York are coming in for politically-motivated attacks. Explaining those doubts helped turn political and public opinion against the plan.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 13, 2025

Several of the organizations that signed the letter also endorsed a 2018 report that highlighted instances of Trump administration nominees and appointees who werent qualified for the job or had such extensive conflicts of interest that they couldnt follow ethics guidelines without recusing themselves from large portions of the agencys work.

Government

Circle of Blue

APRIL 1, 2025

Greenlands political leaders already favor water export as an economic opportunity. But gaining access to one of the worlds largest reserves of clean water is a more logical response to warming temperatures than the presidents politically impulsive insistence that climate change is a hoax. And melting is fast increasing.

Ocean

Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2025

Holding aid hostage to serve political goals slows the process down and threatens to rob ordinary folks of the help that they desperately need, from a system they paid into and now depend on for quick relief. The very idea is abhorrent, when families of all political stripes are in desperate straits. billion between 2023-25.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2024

By Melissa Ostroff & Charlie Palladino, EarthWorks With the incoming Trump administration planning rollbacks on climate progress, political leadership in heavy oil and gas-producing states like Pennsylvania must step up now more than ever. It just takes political will. As a result, the dumping continued.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

2: Rescinding cost-effective, popular preparedness grant funding On April 4, the Trump administration ended one of FEMAs most effective and popular grant programs, the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, that President Trump originally signed into law in 2018.

2006

Scientific American

JULY 9, 2025

He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. He holds dual masters degrees in journalism and in Earth and environmental sciences from Columbia University.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Fast forward to today I know Our political crises are a lot to hold. This NOAA graph shows observed sea level from 2000-2018, with future sea level through 2100 for six future pathways. But he was from NASA , one of our nationsand the worldspremier science agencies, so I knew this was real.

Carbon Dioxide

Scientific American

JUNE 18, 2025

In contrast, between 2018 and 2022, when states enacted antitransgender laws, suicide attempts among transgender young people increased by as much as 72 percent. Many of those debates have largely been political, not scientific , however. In the U.K., In sadness, I dissent.”

Law

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

LA Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to divert $3 million from the countys 2018 $134-million settlement with lead-paint manufacturers to test residential properties that are both downwind and within one mile of the Eaton burn scar boundary, LAT’s Boiling Point reported.

Earth Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

As a Senate committee prepares to question Rollins at her confirmation hearing this week, they should take a hard look at her record, which includes far more anti-science rhetoric, inflammatory political statements, and ties to polluting industry than demonstrated interest and expertise in agriculture or food policy.

Fossil Fuels

Yale E360

APRIL 15, 2025

View previous winners from 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , and 2014. Geothermal May Advance, Despite Political Headwinds Food & Agriculture In War Zones, a Race to Save Key Seeds Needed to Feed the World Climate Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North?

2014

Legal Planet

MAY 28, 2025

In 18 years of working in newsrooms around Los Angeles, I talked with lots of political campaigns but a phone call from Antonio Villaraigosa in early spring of 2018 stands out. Inside Climate News Dan Gearino reports on the political dynamics with some help from analysis by David Spence at University of Texas.

Politics

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

Elon Musks journey to the extreme right-wing It was not until relatively recently that Musk became heavily involved in politics, at least not when it did not directly implicate his business interests. Commentators who had followed him closely said he had become radicalised.

Fossil Fuels

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The deal, which would extend fiscal year (FY) 2024 funding through March 14, 2025, and the 2018 Farm Bill through September 2025, does not incorporate Inflation Reduction Act conservation investments into the farm bill extension.

2018

Scientific American

JUNE 25, 2025

He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. He holds dual masters degrees in journalism and in Earth and environmental sciences from Columbia University.

2015

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

State Agency Closure Notice: State Government Offices Under Governors Jurisdiction Closed Monday, January 6 In These Locations - Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Reading -- DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan.

Natural Gas

Scientific American

JULY 2, 2025

He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. He holds dual masters degrees in journalism and in Earth and environmental sciences from Columbia University.

Cooling

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 8, 2025

More than six years since President Trump signed the bipartisan Agriculture Improvement Act into law in 2018, budget reconciliation is poised to dash all hope for a much needed new, full five year farm bill. For farmers and communities across state and political lines, the loss of a new farm bill would be an unequivocal setback.

2018

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 16, 2025

The budget reconciliation process, an optional budget procedure that can alter spending, revenues, and the federal debt limit, was first established in the late 1970s and has been used dozens of times by both political parties since 1980. Stay tuned to NSAC’s blog for more on this soon.

Conservation

Scientific American

JUNE 27, 2025

He has worked onboard oceanographic research vessels and tracked money and politics in science from Washington, D.C. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. He holds dual masters degrees in journalism and in Earth and environmental sciences from Columbia University.

2009

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- Gov. Ohio- $2.98 PA- $3.26 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Same Again As Last Week- 15; 21 On Aug. 23 -- WESA: Could Locally Drilled Natural Gas Get More Expensive With New Republican Administrations Push To Increase LNG Gas Exports? Ohio- $2.98

Politics

Physics World

JULY 15, 2025

Europe, meanwhile, was recovering from the devastating First World War, and experiencing political and economic instability alongside flourishing artistic and intellectual movements. In 2018 Sen De was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (now the Vigyan Yuva – Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award).

Technology

Scientific American

AUGUST 6, 2025

But since 2018, medical guidelines have started to recommend using these tests in clinical practice. Findings such as these are already shaping animal-welfare policy, says philosopher Jonathan Birch, director of the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

2005