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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

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May 18, 2018

A Response to Roberts and Payne

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

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May 18, 2018

Here’s Why Seas Are Rising. Somebody Remind the Wall Street Journal.

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May 17, 2018

Five Things You Should Know About EPA’s Proposed Giant Step Backward on the Safety of Chemical Facilities

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

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May 17, 2018

Sonny Perdue’s USDA Is in Bed with Big Pork. That’s Really Bad for Everyone Else.

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

May 17, 2018

High Energy Arc Faults and the Nuclear Plant Fire Protection IOU

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

US Air Force

May 16, 2018

Bipartisan Outrage as EPA, White House Try to Cover Up Chemical Health Assessment

Michael Halpern
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May 16, 2018

Building the Right Project: An Engineer’s Perspective on Infrastructure Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events

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May 16, 2018

Among President Trump’s Dismal Judicial Nominees, Wendy Vitter Stands Out for Promoting Unscientific Myths

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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May 16, 2018

California Could Pass Innovative Legislation on Key Climate, Energy and Transportation Issues

Jason Barbose
Former Contributor

May 16, 2018

UCS Joins Lawsuit to Stop Pruitt from Rolling Back Clean Car Standards

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

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May 15, 2018

Back to Bad Air: The Trump EPA’s Attack on Science and Our Health

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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May 14, 2018

SNAP is a boon to urban and rural economies—and small-town stores may not survive cuts

Sarah Reinhardt
Former Contributor

May 14, 2018

La EPA elimina una protección vital para mantener el aire libre de sustancias tóxicas, poniendo nuestra salud en peligro

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

May 11, 2018

Industry Criticizing… Industry? This is What Effective Advocacy Looks Like

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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May 11, 2018

Scott Pruitt’s Incredible, Perpetual, Public Time-Wasting Machine

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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May 11, 2018

Automakers Pretend President Trump Isn’t Giving Them Exactly What They Asked For—We Don’t Buy it.

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

May 10, 2018

Made in Chattanooga

Dave Lochbaum
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May 10, 2018

The Past, Present, and Future of Carbon Pricing in Washington State

Adrienne Alvord
Former Contributor

May 10, 2018

The New Farm Bill’s Pesticide Provisions are a Sneak Attack on the Environment

Derrick Z. Jackson
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May 9, 2018

So, What Does the Endangered Species Act Mean to Me?

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May 9, 2018

How Would a Flawed 2020 Census Affect You? I Talked with Someone Who Knows

Michael Latner
Former UCS Fellow

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May 9, 2018

2°C or not 2°C? Unanswered Questions in ExxonMobil’s and Chevron’s Climate Risk Reports

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

Pesticide Action Network

May 9, 2018

How Trump’s Proposed Cuts to the EPA’s Science and Technology Budget Endanger Our Health and Safety

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

EPA

May 8, 2018

EPA Eliminates Vital Protection to Keep Air Clean of Toxics, Threatening Our Health

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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