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June 4, 2025

Court Affirms Legal Responsibility of Polluters in Climate Case

The ruling in Lliuya v. RWE shows that courts are increasingly willing to listen to climate scientists, accept probabilistic modeling, and treat emissions data as credible evidence of harm.

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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June 3, 2025

Planning For Climate Change Isn’t Happening. It’s Putting Communities At Risk.

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

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June 3, 2025

Strength in Numbers: Why We Need More Climate Science in Power System Planning

Rachel Licker
Former Staff

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Gregory Kulacki

East Asia Project Manager

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Senior Energy Analyst

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February 18, 2015

The Potential for Clean Fuels in Washington

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

February 17, 2015

Millstone Unit 3 Reactor’s AFW Near-Miss (to be continued)

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

February 13, 2015

What Snow and the U.S. Army Tell Us About Coal vs. Renewable Energy

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

February 13, 2015

Obesity and Vaccine Efficacy

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

February 13, 2015

A Dam Waste: Outdated Reservoir Rules Dump Water During Drought

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

February 13, 2015

Twenty Years of Open Records Attacks

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

February 12, 2015

An Energy State in Transition: Pennsylvania Can Be a Renewable Energy Leader

Jeremy Richardson
Former Contributor

February 12, 2015

Baltimore against the Measles: A Victory for Science, but for How Long?

Deborah Bailin
Former contributor

February 11, 2015

Another Day, Another U.S. Solar Record: 5 Great Facts About the Desert Sunlight Project

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

February 11, 2015

Why Electric Vehicles Matter in Georgia (and your state too!)

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

February 10, 2015

Groundbreaking New Report on Geoengineering Tackles Carbon Dioxide Removal Experiments

Brenda Ekwurzel
Director of Scientific Excellence

February 10, 2015

Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth: The NAS Weighs Controversial Measures in New Report

Peter Frumhoff
Former Director of Science and Policy and Chief Climate Scientist

February 10, 2015

Accident Sequence Precursors for Nuclear Reactors

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

February 9, 2015

Hair-Trigger Alert: Some Risks are Not Worth Taking

Ken Kimmell
Former President

February 9, 2015

Fire Borrowing, the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, and an Opportunity for Bipartisan Action

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

February 6, 2015

Detective or Scientist? Fingerprinting the Ocean to Estimate Global Sea Level Rise

UCS Science Network

February 6, 2015

A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: How the Bay Bridge Was Rebuilt Without Considering Climate Change

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

February 6, 2015

Here are the Top 5 New Clean Cars for 2015 and 2016

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

February 5, 2015

Regardless of the Groundhog’s Shadow, Farmers and Scientists are Planning for Spring

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

February 5, 2015

Where Florida’s Electricity Comes From, and How It Can Do Better

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

February 5, 2015

Let the Engineer Speak: On Scientific Free Speech and the Harassment of Experts

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

February 4, 2015

If You Build It, Will They Come? The Relationship Between Healthy Food Access and Consumption.

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

February 3, 2015

The Man Who Saved the World

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

February 3, 2015

Who Should Decide What Happens When Scientists Violate Conflict of Interest Rules?

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

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