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Worsening Wildfires Contribute to Increasingly Unaffordable Insurance and Housing Costs

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Railroads Are Running Dirty Diesel Trains Through Communities and No One Is Doing Anything About It

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June 21, 2017

An Important Step to Clean Air and More Equitable Communities in Los Angeles

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June 20, 2017

Wind Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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June 20, 2017

How Many Rides Do Lyft and Uber Give Per Day? New Data Help Cities Plan for the Future

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June 20, 2017

Note to the Department of Energy: The Grid Has Changed

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June 19, 2017

Heat Waves and Wildfires Signal Warnings about Climate Change (and Budget Cuts)

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June 19, 2017

A Priority List for Trump’s New FEMA Chief

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June 19, 2017

Some Tough Questions for Rick Perry at DOE Budget Hearing

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June 16, 2017

5 Reasons Why Congress Should Immediately Greenlight the Nation’s Natural Disaster Responder-in-Chief

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June 16, 2017

As Washington Flounders, Midwest Businesses Forge Ahead on Clean Energy

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June 15, 2017

Beliefs Won’t Save Tangier Island, Virginia, From Sea Level Rise—Informed Preparedness Will.

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June 15, 2017

The Case of the Missing Numbers

Stephen Young
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June 15, 2017

How Do We Get to 100% Renewable Energy? Could be Storage, Storage, Storage

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Senior Energy Analyst

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June 14, 2017

This Summer’s Gulf “Dead Zone” Could Be Bigger Than Connecticut—and Trump’s Budget Cuts Would Make It Worse

Karen Perry Stillerman
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June 14, 2017

Signed, Sealed, Delayed? The New Fate of the Added Sugar Rule and Other Safeguards

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June 14, 2017

Nuclear Leaks: The Back Story the NRC Doesn’t Want You to Know about Palo Verde

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June 13, 2017

The EPA Budget Cuts Are A Direct Attack on Our Air, Water, and Health

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Director of Scientific Excellence

June 13, 2017

Oyster Creek Reactor: Bad Nuclear Vibrations

Dave Lochbaum
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June 12, 2017

Five Questions Scott Pruitt Should Answer at This Week's EPA Budget Hearing

Kathleen Rest
Former Executive Director

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June 9, 2017

Protect the Science, Protect the Species

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Former Contributor

June 9, 2017

Drowning in a Sea of Sufficient Ozone Research: An Open Letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

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June 9, 2017

Wind Keeps Creating Jobs, Even as We Pull Out of Paris

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June 9, 2017

Increase in Cancer Risk for Japanese Workers Accidentally Exposed to Plutonium

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June 9, 2017

Federal Science Advisory Boards Under Threat: Why Scientists Should Get Involved

Andrew Rosenberg
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June 8, 2017

Trump Budget Bares Wholesale Disregard for Environmental Justice Communities, But a New Bill Gives Hope

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