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December 15, 2025

China and the United States Are Racing Towards Different Ends in AI

While China sees AI as another tool for controlling its populace, the United States is rushing to create AI that will give it global economic dominance.

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

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December 16, 2025

The Generations of Public Service We Lost in 2025

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December 15, 2025

Disinformation Undermines Our Right to Science

Kate Cell
Senior Climate Campaign Manager

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Dylan Spaulding

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Gregory Kulacki

East Asia Project Manager

Sandra Sattler

Senior Energy Modeler

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September 16, 2014

How do EVs Compare with Gas-Powered Vehicles? Better Every Year….

Don Anair
Deputy Director & Research Director, Clean Transportation

September 16, 2014

Three Mile Island Retrospective

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

September 15, 2014

Does Domino Sugar Want You to Swallow Sugar-coated Science—All for a Good Cause?

Deborah Bailin
Former contributor

September 12, 2014

Why Are Latinos Way Ahead of the Climate Change Curve?

Roberto Mera
Former contributor

September 10, 2014

The Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force: Still a Chance for Science to Inform Fracking Policy

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

September 9, 2014

How Much Carbon Dioxide Is in the Atmosphere? A Massive Increase in 2013 Sets a Record

Brenda Ekwurzel
Former Staff

September 9, 2014

California Tops 100K Electric Vehicles Sold

David Reichmuth
Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program

September 9, 2014

The Missile Defense Agency IG Report

Laura Grego
Research Director, Senior Scientist

September 9, 2014

Rain Reboots at Calvert Cliffs

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

September 5, 2014

Sugar Association Sweet-Talks Attendees at a Diabetes Conference

Deborah Bailin
Former contributor

September 5, 2014

How Can Conservation Scientists Make Their Expertise More Resonant? Apply for the New Wilburforce Fellowship

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

September 5, 2014

Cap and Trade: Alive and Well

Ken Kimmell
Former President

September 4, 2014

How Many Homes Have Rooftop Solar? The Number is Growing…

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

September 4, 2014

Where Is the Wastewater Going? How Better Data Can Make Us More Resilient

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September 4, 2014

On the SEC Disclosure Rule, the People Have Spoken

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

September 3, 2014

Michael Mann Responds to Misleading Filings in Climate Change Lawsuit

Aaron Huertas
Former Contributor

September 2, 2014

Hierarchy of Nuclear Regulatory Requirements

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

August 28, 2014

Science Diplomacy and Subtle Ways of Discouraging International Collaboration

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

August 28, 2014

What Kind of Car Should I Buy? The Science Behind Purchasing a Vehicle

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

August 27, 2014

Diablo Canyon: NRC Insider’s Dissent

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

August 27, 2014

Growing Pains: Why Companies Need to Learn to Eat Their Vegetables and Move Beyond GreenPalm Certificates

Lael Goodman
Former contributor

August 27, 2014

3 Reasons You Don’t Want to Communicate About Your Research but Absolutely Should

Aaron Huertas
Former Contributor

August 26, 2014

A Funny Thing Happened at the Fish and Wildlife Service: The Wolverine Endangered Species Listing

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

August 26, 2014

Price-Anderson and Nuclear Safety Good Buys (or Good Byes?)

Dave Lochbaum
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