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August 5, 2025

Trump’s Latest Move to Deny Climate Science and What it Means for Vehicle Standards

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Don Anair
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August 5, 2025

As States Continue to Fail Workers, We Need Federal Heat Protections

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Despite Clear Preferences from Texas Hill Flood Survivors, Uncertainty Looms

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Tesla Surges Ahead on Energy Storage

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April 30, 2015

Picking Up Speed: Why California Climate Action Keeps Moving Ahead

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April 29, 2015

The Causes and Complexity of Obesity

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
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April 29, 2015

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

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April 28, 2015

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

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April 27, 2015

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

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April 27, 2015

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

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April 27, 2015

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

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April 23, 2015

National Research Council on Electric Vehicles: Clean and Getting Cleaner

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April 22, 2015

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

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April 22, 2015

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

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April 22, 2015

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

Michael Halpern
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April 21, 2015

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

Ken Kimmell
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April 21, 2015

Renewables and Efficiency: Achieving Illinois's Clean Energy Potential

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April 21, 2015

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

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April 21, 2015

Nuclear Safety Imperfection

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April 20, 2015

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

David Wright
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April 17, 2015

UCS Webinar on the Nuclear Deal with Iran

David Wright
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April 17, 2015

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

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