Cases

Home of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis is coping with seas that are rising faster than the global average.

Evidence in a recent federal district court case, Western Sugar Cooperative et al. v. Archer Daniels Midland et al providing insight into strategies sugar interests have used to mislead the public and prevent science-based policies on sugar.

Great Lakes Report Technical Appendix: Climate Change Solutions

Projections of how climate will respond to current and future emissions from human activities are the starting point for assessing the potential impacts of climate change.

Great Lakes Report Technical Appendix: Impacts on Aquatic Ecosystems

The most direct effects of climate change in the Great Lakes region will be felt in human health and well-being

Food safety disasters like the Listeria outbreak of 2011 are more common than they should be.

FDA scientists have called public attention to systemic political interference in the approval of medical devices.

In April 2008, the EPA granted greater control over a key chemical database to other federal agencies, allowing many with conflicts of interest to delay recording scientific assessments of the toxicological effects of chemicals.

One of a series of case studies produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists' Scientific Integrity Program between 2004 and 2010 to document the abuses highlighted in our 2004 report, Scientific Integrity in Policy Making.

The head of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration attempted to cover-up evidence of beryllium exposure among its inspectors and retaliated against a scientist who exposed the problem.

The administrator of Medicare threatened to fire his chief actuary if he communicated to Congress his cost estimates for the Medicare Prescription Drug Mobilization Act of 2003.