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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
Senior Energy Analyst

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
Bilingual Writer and Podcast Host, Union of Concerned Scientists

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July 9, 2025

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

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June 26, 2013

What We Know: Renewable Energy Can Deliver for the President’s Carbon Reduction Plan

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

June 26, 2013

Sources of the Haze in Southeast Asia, Fires Are Quickly Located with Public GIS Data

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

June 26, 2013

New NRC Study Shows Benefits of Transferring Spent Fuel to Dry Casks

David Wright
Former Contributor

June 25, 2013

Let’s Live Long and Prosper: President Obama’s Call to Combat Climate Change

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

June 25, 2013

Take Another Look at B61

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

June 25, 2013

Obama Directs the EPA to “Work Expeditiously” to Complete Standards for New and Existing Power Plants: Now the Details on How the EPA Can Deliver the Goods

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

June 25, 2013

Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #9: OpE

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

June 24, 2013

FY14 NNSA Budget: Scarce Resources Devoted to Nuclear Weapons

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

June 24, 2013

Save Money, Cut Emissions, and Create Jobs: The Benefits of Half the Oil

Josh Goldman
Former Contributor

June 20, 2013

Monsanto and the World Food Prize

Doug Gurian-Sherman
Former contributor

June 20, 2013

Today’s “King Tides” Preview the Future of Sea Level Rise

Melanie Fitzpatrick

June 20, 2013

China in Focus #12: Science and Security in China

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

June 19, 2013

Ohio Experts Endorse State's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Standards

Jeff Deyette
Director of State Policy and Analysis

June 19, 2013

New U.S. Nuclear Weapons Guidance: Not Bold Enough

Lisbeth Gronlund
Former UCS Global Security Program Co-Director

June 18, 2013

Interference in the Science of Atrazine (Again): Syngenta Tears a Page from the Tobacco Industry Playbook

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

June 18, 2013

Fission Stories #139: Arkansas Nuclear One Fatal Event

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

June 17, 2013

We Need a Clear Signal that the Obama Administration Will Issue Power Plant Carbon Standards Soon

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

June 17, 2013

Critical Decade for Climate Action – New Report Echoes Many Others: We Must Decarbonize to Stabilize Climate

Melanie Fitzpatrick

June 17, 2013

Birthplace of American Democracy Faces Threat from Accelerating Sea Level Rise

Adam Markham
Former Staff

June 14, 2013

New Renewable Energy Rule Adopted for California's Publicly Owned Utilities

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

June 13, 2013

Senator Heinrich, We Couldn’t Have Said It Better—Science and Democracy are Indivisible

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

June 12, 2013

News on Energy Alternatives—Wind, Efficiency Are In, Small Nukes Are Out

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

June 12, 2013

Movie Review: Put “Pandora’s Promise” Back in the Box

Ed Lyman
Director, Nuclear Power Safety

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Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #8: Allegations

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