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July 10, 2025

Power Hungry: Why Data Centers Are Developing Their Own Energy Sources to Fuel AI

The spread of AI data centers is larger, more numerous, and faster-growing than anything that has come before to the electric utilities. The potential for this to cause supply shortages and costs for consumers is plain to see.

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream

July 10, 2025

Ask a Scientist: How Livestreaming 100 Hours of Weather and Climate Moved Thousands to Action

Michelle Rama-Poccia
Bilingual Writer and Podcast Host, Union of Concerned Scientists

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July 9, 2025

The Court Has Spoken: A Healthy Climate is a Human Right

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

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April 5, 2019

5 Wind Power Facts (From Better Sources Than President Trump)

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

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April 5, 2019

Xenophobia Run Amok at the National Institutes of Health

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

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April 5, 2019

6 Ways to Make Your Science Advocacy Effective at the State and Local Levels

UCS Science Network

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April 2, 2019

Shell Puts Trade Groups on Notice about Climate Policy

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

April 1, 2019

Food Companies at the Table in Trump Administration’s Dietary Guidelines Committee

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

April 1, 2019

Trump Administration Proposes Sponsorship Opportunities for Federal Agency Staff Positions and “Assets”

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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March 29, 2019

Five Takeaways from the EPA Meeting on Particulate Pollution

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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March 29, 2019

Nine Reasons to Oppose the Trump Administration’s Proposed SNAP Changes

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

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March 29, 2019

What Climate Change Could Mean for the Future of California’s Springtime Snowpack

Geeta Persad
Former Contributor

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March 28, 2019

Equality, More or Less: How the Supreme Court Might Fix Gerrymandering

Michael Latner
Former UCS Fellow

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March 28, 2019

How Securitization Can Help Achieve a Just Transition for Coal Communities

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

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March 27, 2019

How the Chemical Industry Deployed the Disinformation Playbook on PFAS

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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March 27, 2019

EPA Needs to Trust Its Own Scientists and Protect Us from Ethylene Oxide

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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March 27, 2019

1,399 Endangered Species Latest Casualty as David Bernhardt’s Siege on Science Continues at Interior Department

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

March 25, 2019

Taking Science Out of Air Pollution Protections

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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March 25, 2019

How the Green New Deal Can Unify Rather than Divide Us

Ken Kimmell
Former President

March 22, 2019

New Mexico Commits to 100

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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March 21, 2019

Illinois’ Energy Future: Less Coal, More Renewables

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

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March 21, 2019

What’s Hot in Offshore Wind: 5 Dispatches from the Front Lines

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

March 19, 2019

Maps Lie. Beyoncé Doesn’t

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

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March 18, 2019

The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Continues to Weaken

UCS Science Network

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March 18, 2019

Inspiration, Humility, Hope, and Sadness: Reflections on the Youth Climate Strike

Alden Meyer
Former Contributor

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March 14, 2019

Trump’s Proposed 2020 Budget Takes Aim at Science (Again)

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

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March 14, 2019

A Comment Guide for Fighting the EPA’s Attacks on Mercury Standards and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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