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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
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John Rogers

Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

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Amanda Fencl

Director of Climate Science, Climate and Energy

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July 13, 2015

I ♥ the Clean Power Plan: Six Great Reasons You Should Too

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

July 13, 2015

Worried about Wildfires? Climate Change Will Keep ‘em Coming…

Jason Funk
Former contributor

July 10, 2015

School Lunch: Have Healthier Standards Driven Up Food Costs?

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

July 10, 2015

President Obama: Go to Hiroshima

David Wright
Former Contributor

July 10, 2015

The Facts Haven’t Changed: EVs Clean and Getting Cleaner

David Reichmuth
Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program

July 10, 2015

King Coal's Stages of Grief, Part 2: Financial Risk and the Economics of Coal

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

July 9, 2015

Exxon Responds to Revelation that Company Recognized Climate Risks as Early as 1981

Aaron Huertas
Former Contributor

July 9, 2015

Excuses, Excuses: The School Nutrition Association’s Dumbest Reasons for Rolling Back Healthy School Lunch

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

July 9, 2015

Climate Justice: Why Vulnerable Communities Need Resilience Investments

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

July 9, 2015

Interview with Harvard’s James Stock: Navigating a Sensible Middle Path Forward on the Renewable Fuel Standard

Jeremy Martin
Director of Fuels Policy

July 8, 2015

Automakers Piloting the Reuse Market for EV Batteries

Rachael Nealer
Former Contributor

July 8, 2015

We’ve Got More Than Enough Corn

Ricardo Salvador
Former Contributor

July 8, 2015

The Evidence For How Fossil Fuel Companies Misled Us For Decades

Ken Kimmell
Former President

July 7, 2015

5 Reasons Obama's New Solar Access Initiative Is Welcome News

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

July 7, 2015

Preventing Space War

Laura Grego
Research Director, Senior Scientist

July 7, 2015

Palisades 50

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

July 2, 2015

What Do Algae, Corn, and Summer Vacation Have in Common?

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

July 1, 2015

Steering Toward Sustainability: How California's New Groundwater Law Can Help Us From Driving Off a Cliff

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

June 30, 2015

Baltimore’s Arabbers: Simple Solutions to Public Problems?

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

June 30, 2015

Why We Need an Executive Order on Political Spending: An Open Letter to President Obama

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

June 30, 2015

King Coal's Stages of Grief, Part 1: Facing the Facts

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

June 30, 2015

Enhancing NRC Public Meetings

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

June 29, 2015

Bad Policies Should Not Get a Free “Ride” on Spending Bills

Celia Wexler
Former contributor

June 26, 2015

Green Guilt, Really? A Response to Slate’s Daniel Gross and the Concept of Green Privilege

Josh Goldman
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