Washington (June 8, 2023)—The United States Supreme Court ruled today in Allen v. Milligan that Alabama’s congressional district map likely violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prevents ...

Biden administration finalizes sale of five California offshore wind leases, marking an important step toward the first-ever U.S. offshore wind projects in the Pacific Ocean. Statement by John Rogers ...

Russia’s ruthless attack on Wednesday signifies the beginning of a dangerous new phase in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Water resources management in Latin America and the Caribbean is particularly threatened by climatic, economic, and political pressures. To assess the region's ability to manage water resources, we ...

Dr. Rebecca Boehm explains how excess fertilizer on Midwest farms contributes to “dead zones” in the Gulf, and how to reverse course.

This study presents a general framework to aggregate and summarize 2D hydraulic model outputs by adapting the traditional water resources metrics of reliability, resilience, vulnerability, and ...

Below is a statement by Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), who attended the talks in Bonn and has actively participated in the UN climate change ...

Enough power for 40 million homes. Six times more energy than a decade ago. More jobs than the entire coal industry. Renewable energy is on a winning streak. We wouldn't bet against it.

SANTA FE, N.M. (March 7, 2019)—In the waning days of the 2019 legislative session, the New Mexico Senate has voted to pass the Energy Transition Act (SB 489), which calls for generating 80 percent of ...

xonMobil investors filed a resolution calling on the company to set and disclose carbon emissions reduction targets for its products and operations in line with Paris Agreement temperature goals.

WASHINGTON (September 12, 2018)—At least two nuclear power plants may be in harm’s way when Hurricane Florence hits the East Coast later this week: Brunswick near Wilmington, North Carolina, and Surry ...

New York City Climate Lawsuit Dismissal Leaves Taxpayers Alone to Shoulder Massive Climate Adaptation Costs Statement by Ken Kimmell, Union of Concerned Scientists Published Jul 19, 2018 ...