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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
Research Scientist

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May 1, 2015

The End for MOX

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

May 1, 2015

From Baltimore Protests to Food: The Importance of Community Voices

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

April 30, 2015

Tesla Surges Ahead on Energy Storage

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

April 30, 2015

Picking Up Speed: Why California Climate Action Keeps Moving Ahead

Adrienne Alvord
Former Contributor

April 29, 2015

The Causes and Complexity of Obesity

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

April 29, 2015

UCS Webinar on Nuclear Hair-Trigger Alert and Launch-on-Warning

David Wright
Former Contributor

April 28, 2015

Perils of New Nuclear Fuel: Part 2 – Grand Gulf’s Mighty Pen

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

April 27, 2015

Japan’s Top Hawk Calls for the United States to End Hair-Trigger Alert

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

April 27, 2015

Nuclear Hair-Trigger and Launch-on-Warning: The World Says “No”

Lisbeth Gronlund
Former UCS Global Security Program Co-Director

April 27, 2015

Hair-Trigger Alert and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Fact-Checking the U.S. Fact Sheet

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

April 23, 2015

National Research Council on Electric Vehicles: Clean and Getting Cleaner

David Reichmuth
Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program

April 22, 2015

How to Cut Carbon and Save Money: RGGI Delivers Yet Again

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

April 22, 2015

The Latest on EVs: Battery Costs Down and Extended Ranges on the Rise

Rachael Nealer
Former Contributor

April 22, 2015

Scientific Societies Fight Legislation Designed to "Advance Scientific Leadership" — the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

April 21, 2015

Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on McDonald’s Door: How UCS and Others Helped Secure Deforestation-Free Palm Oil Commitments

Ken Kimmell
Former President

April 21, 2015

Renewables and Efficiency: Achieving Illinois's Clean Energy Potential

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

April 21, 2015

School Lunch Costs: What the Kiwi Are They Talking About?

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

April 21, 2015

Nuclear Safety Imperfection

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

April 20, 2015

U.S. and Russian Generals Call for Reducing the Risk of Inadvertent Nuclear War

David Wright
Former Contributor

April 17, 2015

UCS Webinar on the Nuclear Deal with Iran

David Wright
Former Contributor

April 17, 2015

Another Misleading Study on the Clean Power Plan: NERC Distorts Reality with False Premise and Assumptions

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

April 14, 2015

Perils of New Nuclear Fuel: Part 1 – Browns Ferry’s Midnight Ride

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

April 13, 2015

Sending FedEx a Message

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

April 13, 2015

Annual Energy Outlook 2015: EIA Consistently Lowballs Renewables, Undercuts Climate Change Efforts

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

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