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2025 Energy Year in Review: Solar and Storage Shine Through, Despite It All

It may not seem like it, but clean energy showed remarkable strength in 2025. Here’s how.

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The Trump Administration’s Assault on Vaccines Endangers Us All

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Disinformation Undermines Our Right to Science

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“You Need to Move Beyond Surviving to Thriving”: A Conversation with Mustafa Ali

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The 2017 Hurricane Season Begins: Here Are 3 Alarming Things I’m Watching

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A Shameful Act: President Trump’s Likely Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement

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May 31, 2017

New Numbers Are In and EVs Are Cleaner Than Ever

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We All Benefit from Foreign Nations’ Food Crop Diversity—But Do Our Politics Reflect This Interdependence?

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May 30, 2017

Experts Call For Shareholder Action on Climate Ahead of ExxonMobil and Chevron Annual Meetings

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American Chemistry Council: Obstructing Formaldehyde Safeguards Then and Now

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Affordable Solar Power is Coming to Low-Income Minority Neighborhoods

Derrick Z. Jackson
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California’s Water Well Bill Will Tell Us Who’s Tapping Depleted Groundwater Basins

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

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What You Should Know about the Upcoming GMD Missile Defense Test: Part 2

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What You Should Know about the Upcoming GMD Missile Defense Test: Part 1

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On EPA Scientific Integrity, Wall Street Journal is Short of Facts

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Renewable Energy Surges Globally with China and India in the Lead

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The Bad: Post #2 on the NNSA’s FY2018 Budget Request

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4 Ways President Trump’s Budget Takes Aim at FEMA and Disaster Preparedness

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May 25, 2017

Automakers Seek to Shirk Environmental Responsibilities, and Senators Oblige

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May 25, 2017

UCS in Science: The NRC Must Act to Reduce the Dangers of Spent Fuel Pool Fires at Nuclear Plants

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May 24, 2017

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The Trump Budget Is an Affront to Farmers (and All of Us)

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Trump’s Proposed Budget: A Wrecking Ball to Science

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As the White House Fixates on Coal, Renewable Energy Goes Local

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