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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
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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
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The Court Has Spoken: A Healthy Climate is a Human Right

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October 14, 2014

EPA Clean Power Plan Underestimates Power of Renewable Energy to Reduce Carbon Emissions

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EPA Clean Power Plan: We Must Do Better, We Can Do Better

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The World Nuclear Industry Status Report: 2014

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October 10, 2014

Chemical Accidents: Speak Up for Our Right to Know What is Happening in Our Communities

Andrew Rosenberg
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October 10, 2014

Wall Street Journal Offers a Skewed Climate Perspective from Judith Curry

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October 10, 2014

China in Focus #17: Serving the People

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October 10, 2014

ALEC Can't Deny Its Record of Climate Change Disinformation

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October 9, 2014

Another Faulty New York Times Op-ed: 5 Reasons Why an Attack on LEDs Is Way Off the Mark

John Rogers
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October 9, 2014

A Fuel Cell Vehicle Test Drive: The 2015 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle

Josh Goldman
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October 8, 2014

Trending Towards Efficiency: EPA Shows New Vehicles are Saving Money and Lowering Emissions

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

October 8, 2014

Who’ll Plant the Trees for Our Grandchildren to Use?

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

October 8, 2014

Want to Talk to a Scientist in Canada? Don't Look to the Federal Government

Michael Halpern
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October 8, 2014

Encroaching Tides: How Sea Level Rise and Tidal Flooding Threaten U.S. East and Gulf Coasts Communities over the Next 30 Years

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

October 7, 2014

Dorks for LEDs, Unite! 5 Reasons Why the 2014 Nobel Physics Prize is Right On

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

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Oconee Irony

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

October 3, 2014

Doing Science that Matters: Engaging with Communities in Collaborative Scientific Research

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October 3, 2014

The U.S. National Missile Defense System Turns 10

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October 2, 2014

Sea Level Rise and Tidal Flooding: Forthcoming Report on Encroaching Tides Signals a New Chapter for Many Coastal Communities

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October 1, 2014

You Can’t Close a Safe, Economical Nuclear Reactor

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October 1, 2014

Clean Tech Comes In All Shapes and Sizes, Including Really Big Trucks

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Combatting Panic: Ebola, the CDC, and Crisis Communication

Gretchen Goldman
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How to Cut Carbon, Ramp up Renewable Energy, and Rebuild the Energy Sector

Mike Jacobs
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Big Oil, Climate Change, and California's AB32

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