Tessa C

CNN headline that says Trump delivers a deadly blow to EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution

The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family.

It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.

If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.

We will hold this administration accountable.

Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.

Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

Opinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away. (Gift Article) The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.

Read this from Jonathan Cole, who was provost of Columbia during my entire time in school. American research universities are under attack by the Trump administration, which threatens America’s leadership in scientific discovery, economic growth, and global competitiveness, especially against China.

Advocating to Congress in Support of Science Last week, I presented in the Environmental Engineering Seminar (CEE 595) on nonpartisan science advocacy to Congress. Drawing on my experience from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Policy & Research Legislative Fellowship and various science-policy workshops to guide the presentation. This blog posts summarizes my presentation and provides resources for those interested in advocating for science funding. While the original audience of this presentation was engineering and sci

Your voice matters. Your advocacy makes a difference. Let’s stand up for science together. tessaclarizio.wixsite.com/website/post...

Finding Inspiration Through Community: Reflections on weSTEM 2025 Last week, I attended the 13th annual weSTEM conference, the flagship event hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s (UIUC) chapter of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers (GradSWE)....

I had the privilege of attending GradSWE Illinois’ flagship event weSTEM. It was truly inspiring to hear from so many accoplished women who shared their career journeys, advice for persisting through adversity, and the importance of community. tessaclarizio.wixsite.com/website/post...

Federal science agencies are under threat. AGU has made it easy to advocate for NSF, NOAA, NASA and more. Visit AGU’s Science Policy Action Center to stand up for science.

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My Experience at AGU 2024 Please note that most of this blog post was written prior to the Trump administration taking office in January 2025. If you are a scientist, please consider filling out AGU’s survey on the impact on t...

Overdue but finally published my blog post on my AGU2024 experience. I hope that wide scale scientific meetings like this can continue happening despite the threats to funding sources.

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We are alarmed by the Administration’s actions to freeze science funding and eliminate DEI efforts and climate change initiatives, which go against AGU’s mission and harms our members. We must unite to address these changes, beginning by hearing from you.

Read more: https://buff.ly/4hm8r4e

Book burning?
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."

I would love even a back-of-the-envelope estimate of what all this lost data cost taxpayers to develop, and will cost us in the future with their absence. This is theft of astronomical proportions.

Let me see if I have the timeline right here.

Monday: OMB Memorandum M-25-13: White House orders "pause" on all federal grants & loans starting Tuesday 5pm

Tuesday: Federal judge issues (literally) last-minute block on pause

Wednesday: New OMB memo (M-25-14) says M-25-13 is rescinded

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.