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December 15, 2025

China and the United States Are Racing Towards Different Ends in AI

While China sees AI as another tool for controlling its populace, the United States is rushing to create AI that will give it global economic dominance.

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

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December 16, 2025

The Generations of Public Service We Lost in 2025

UCS Science Network

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December 15, 2025

Disinformation Undermines Our Right to Science

Kate Cell
Senior Climate Campaign Manager

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Dylan Spaulding

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Gregory Kulacki

East Asia Project Manager

Sandra Sattler

Senior Energy Modeler

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December 21, 2016

Four Economic Errors that Cause Environmental Problems (and How to Correct Them)

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December 21, 2016

The Congressional Review Act: A Radical Threat To Science

Yogin Kothari
Former Contributor

December 21, 2016

Ready and Organizing: Scientists, and Most Americans, Have Climate Change on Their Minds

Astrid Caldas
Senior Climate Scientist

Amelia Moore

December 20, 2016

In the Rush to Repeal Obamacare, A Reminder: Food Policy Is Health Policy

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

December 20, 2016

Michigan Finally Moves Forward on Clean Energy, As the Final Bell Tolls on 2016 Session

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

December 20, 2016

The Good Food Movement—A Force That Can’t Be Stopped

Ricardo Salvador
Former Contributor

December 20, 2016

Last Call! Obama’s Final Actions on Nuclear Weapons

Lisbeth Gronlund
Former UCS Global Security Program Co-Director

December 20, 2016

End of the (Weekly) Line

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

December 19, 2016

Pruitt EPA Appointment Ominous for Environmental Justice Communities

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

December 16, 2016

Reflections on the IAEA Nuclear Security Conference: More Participants, Less Focus

Ed Lyman
Director, Nuclear Power Safety

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December 15, 2016

Ryan Zinke on Climate Change: What You Should Know about Trump's Choice for Department of Interior

Adam Markham
Former Staff

December 15, 2016

Trump’s New China Policy: The Flynn Factor

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

The latest thing in energy: the Block Island Wind Farm (Credit: J. Rogers)

December 15, 2016

Unleash the Ocean Winds: 3 Signs that Offshore Wind Energy Has Arrived in the US

John Rogers
Associate Director, Energy Analytics

Paulo Brando

December 14, 2016

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in 2016: the Lazy Dragon Woke Up

UCS Science Network

December 14, 2016

Ending Tropical Deforestation: Have We Got Our Priorities Backwards?

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

December 14, 2016

Polar Vortex Returns. Will Wind Energy Be Left Out in the Cold?

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

December 14, 2016

Graduate Students Organize to Promote Science-Informed Leadership in the New Executive Administration

UCS Science Network

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December 14, 2016

Trump’s Picks for Defense: What We Know About Mattis and Flynn

David Wright
Former Contributor

ReVision Energy

December 14, 2016

A Powerful Investment: Clean Energy Financing in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont

Steve Clemmer
Director of Energy Research & Analysis

December 13, 2016

The EPA Withdraws Claim that Fracking has no “Widespread Systemic Impacts” on Drinking Water

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

December 13, 2016

Arctic Breaks Many Records – Arctic Report Card 2016

Brenda Ekwurzel
Former Staff

December 13, 2016

Protecting Against Fatigued Nuclear Plant Workers

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

Duncan Hull

December 12, 2016

Lies Hurt. Facts Matter. And So Does Resistance.

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

The world's largest fossil fuel companies have worked to deceive hte public about the realities and risks of climate change for decades. Photo: Steve Garvie

December 12, 2016

Endangered Science: Why Global Warming Emissions Are Covered by the Clean Air Act

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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