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Two farmers kneeling in a field

From Silos to Systems

Diet-related disease, climate change, and environmental degradation exact an enormous toll on human and planetary health. These challenges can be addressed in part by shifting what we eat and how we produce food.
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Farmworkers protest carrying photo of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez

Too Hot to Work

Study shows outdoor workers in the US have up to 35 times the risk of dying from heat exposure than the general population.
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An angled shot of the UCS lobby

Building Racial Equity

How the Union of Concerned Scientists is working to center justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in our science-based advocacy, impact, and workplaces.
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Wind power Maine

Clean Energy Transformation

UCS and an expert advisory committee's report that says the US can and must phase out fossil fuels from the entire economy and ramp up clean renewable energy while confronting the racial and economic inequities inherent in our present energy system.
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Boy looking at model of atomic bomb model, "little boy" used in WWII

Japan on No First Use

President Joseph Biden can immediately declare that the United States will never be the first nation to use nuclear weapons without worrying about the effect of such a declaration in Japan.