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August 20, 2025

What Is a “Skinny” Farm Bill—and Is It a Bad Thing?

The House Agriculture Committee may attempt to push through a scaled-down version of the farm bill—but there are certain things it cannot leave out.

Melissa Kaplan
Senior Manager of Government Affairs

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August 19, 2025

We Can Have it All: Forward-Looking Climate Policy and Affordability. Here’s How.

Daniel Barad
Western States Policy Manager

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August 14, 2025

Scientists’ Role in Defending Democracy

Gretchen Goldman
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EPA Inspector General Pushes Agency on Scientific Integrity

Michael Halpern
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Fission Stories #145: When Good News Causes Bad News

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August 30, 2013

Let's Drop "Feed The World": A Plea To Move Beyond an Unhelpful Phrase

Margaret Mellon
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August 29, 2013

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Pluralism: The Advantage of Holding Multiple Worldviews

Michael Halpern
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August 29, 2013

Feeling the Heat on Labor Day

Kathleen Rest
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August 29, 2013

Water Management and Mismanagement at Fukushima

Ed Lyman
Director, Nuclear Power Safety

August 29, 2013

Water-Smart Power Can Help Declining Aquifers

John Rogers
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August 29, 2013

EPA’s Remarkable New Air Pollution Monitors (I’m like a Kid in a Candy Store)

Gretchen Goldman
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August 28, 2013

Creating the IPCC: How to Speak Truth to Power

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Colors of Wildfire Risk: Do Dead Trees Increase the Threat?

Todd Sanford
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August 28, 2013

Science, Religion, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Michael Halpern
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August 28, 2013

Ed Lyman Discusses Nuclear Waste on “Living on Earth”

David Wright
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August 27, 2013

A Change We Didn’t See Coming: Hydraulic Fracturing and Sand Mining in Wisconsin

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August 27, 2013

The C-Max MPG Fix: Getting it Right is Good for Consumers and Automakers Alike

Don Anair
Deputy Director & Research Director, Clean Transportation

August 27, 2013

Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #13: Resources on Reactor Safety Perspectives

Dave Lochbaum
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August 26, 2013

This Just In: Crash Test Dummies Prefer Electric Vehicles

Josh Goldman
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August 26, 2013

Document #9

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August 26, 2013

Small Insect’s Big Lessons for the Farm Bill: Agroecology and Breeding Top Monsanto’s Industrial Agriculture

Doug Gurian-Sherman
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August 23, 2013

White House, Finally, Releases Silica Rule

Michael Halpern
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August 23, 2013

Staying Ahead of the Storm: The Case for Funding Weather Forecasting

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August 22, 2013

Al Gore, Climate Science, and the Responsibility for Careful Communication

Gretchen Goldman
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August 22, 2013

Messengers Matter: Overcoming the Age of Denial

Michael Halpern
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August 20, 2013

From New York to New Mexico, Modest Public Investments Support Healthy Food for All

Karen Perry Stillerman
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Fission Stories #144: Not Minding the Fort

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