One Year of Science Under Biden: Tracking the Administration's Progress and Shortfalls

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) evaluates the first year of the Biden administration's efforts to restore scientific integrity and address environmental and health crises. The report assesses progress in rehiring government scientists, rolling back previous administration initiatives that harmed the environment and climate, and identifies urgent areas requiring further action across nine specific issue areas.

• The Union of Concerned Scientists conducted an assessment of the Biden administration's first year across nine specific issue areas: the federal workforce, scientific integrity, environmental justice, the COVID-19 pandemic, democracy reform, climate change, clean transportation, food and agriculture, and nuclear weapons.
• The report tracks the administration's efforts to restore science-based decisionmaking, specifically focusing on the rehiring of government scientists and the reversal of previous initiatives that impaired scientific integrity and exacerbated climate change.

APA

MacKinney, T., Carter, J., Cleetus, R., Cooke, D., Desikan, A., Knox, J., Oladipo, T., & Stillerman, K. P. (2022). One Year of Science Under Biden: Tracking the Administration's Progress and Shortfalls. Union of Concerned Scientists. https://www.ucs.org/resources/one-year-science-under-biden

Chicago

MacKinney, Taryn, Jacob Carter, Rachel Cleetus, Dave Cooke, Anita Desikan, Jennifer Knox, Taofik Oladipo, and Karen Perry Stillerman. One Year of Science Under Biden: Tracking the Administration's Progress and Shortfalls. Union of Concerned Scientists, 2022. https://www.ucs.org/resources/one-year-science-under-biden.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{mackinney2022one, author = {MacKinney, Taryn and Carter, Jacob and Cleetus, Rachel and Cooke, Dave and Desikan, Anita and Knox, Jennifer and Oladipo, Taofik and Stillerman, Karen Perry}, title = {{One Year of Science Under Biden: Tracking the Administration's Progress and Shortfalls}}, institution = {Union of Concerned Scientists}, year = {2022}, month = jan, url = {https://www.ucs.org/resources/one-year-science-under-biden}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }