Clean Air Policy

Coal is the most significant fossil fuel contributor to climate change

Medical and environmental groups are challenging the EPA’s decision to break with the long-standing scientific evidence that climate change endangers human health

The EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health and issued removal notices to four more

From public health to space exploration, advisory panels have helped U.S. agencies make smarter decisions. The Trump administration wants to kill them

The Trump administration’s mass federal firings include the scientific investigators who make dangerous workplaces safe for millions of people

“The risks of remaining silent at this defining time are far greater than the risks of speaking out,” says one scientist regarding the Trump administration’s attacks on science

Trump administration plans to destroy EPA science will leave the air we breathe and the water we drink more polluted

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences should denounce the antiscientific policies of the Trump administration

The 2024 presidential election will have enormous consequences for the climate, and the health and future of children

As the climate crisis intensifies, experiments to “cool the planet” by reflecting solar radiation proliferate. Without proper global and national regulation, they will worsen the crisis

A brief portion of the December 9 conversation during the climate talks in France between Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Scientific American’s David Biello

U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz tells Scientific American how to achieve massive deployment of clean-energy technology