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May 15, 2025

Ask an Expert: How Strong is the Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud?

It’s no wonder the industry has used every procedural tactic in the book to stall these climate deception and damages claims.

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May 19, 2025

What Are Distributed Energy Resources?

Lee Shaver
Senior Energy Analyst

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May 19, 2025

Federal Science Advisory Committees Are Being Defunded and Dismantled. Here’s a Toolkit to Help Independent Scientists Step Up

Melissa L. Finucane
Vice President of Science & Innovation

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September 21, 2023

Summer 2023 Is a Wrap: It Showed Us the Inequities of Keeping Cool in Killer Heat

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

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September 21, 2023

Nuclear Frontline Communities Understand Cumulative Burdens—Let’s Get Policymakers On The Same Page

Chanese A. Forté
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September 21, 2023

California Advances Corporate Climate Accountability Amid New Evidence of ExxonMobil’s Deception

Kathy Mulvey
Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

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September 21, 2023

Heirs’ Property: The Legal Issue That Has Cost Black Farmers $326 Billion

Archie Creech
Outreach Coordinator

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September 21, 2023

As Expiration Looms, a Look Back at the 2018 Food and Farm Bill

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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September 21, 2023

Can the Inflation Reduction Act Advance Climate Justice?

Chitra Kumar
Managing Director, Climate and Energy Program

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September 21, 2023

Energy Equity: How Can Power Utilities Get It Right?

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Elizabeth Rocco

September 18, 2023

Will World Leaders Step Up to Deliver at the UN Climate Ambition Summit?

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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September 18, 2023

6 Ways STEM Educators Can Enhance Student Engagement in Our Democracy

Alyssa Shearer
Biologist and Science Educator

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September 14, 2023

World Heritage Committee Ignores UNESCO Recommendation to List Venice as Endangered

Adam Markham
Former Staff

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September 14, 2023

Ask a Scientist: It’s Getting Easier for US Car Owners to Go Electric

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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September 13, 2023

A Climate Crossroads for the World Heritage Convention

Adam Markham
Former Staff

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September 13, 2023

Extreme Summer Weather Threatens Gas Power Plants. Here’s How.

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

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September 11, 2023

New Maps Show Inequitable Geography of Danger Season

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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September 11, 2023

What China’s Foreign Relations Law Tells Us About Its View of the International Community

Robert Rust
China Analyst

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September 11, 2023

Mountain Valley Pipeline: Science, Community Activism, and The Fight to Preserve Scientist Voices

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September 7, 2023

How Do Electric Grid Operators Warn Us About Extreme Heat?

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September 6, 2023

Creating Environmental Action by Changing our Message

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August 30, 2023

Boston-Area Communities Work Together to Beat the Heat

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August 30, 2023

One Year After the IRA, UCS Is Hard at Work Bringing Its Benefits to Bear

Johanna Chao Kreilick
Former President

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August 30, 2023

A Hot Summer for Clean Energy in Michigan

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

August 29, 2023

Where Do Electric Trucks Charge?

Samantha Houston
Senior Vehicles Analyst

US Department of Energy

August 29, 2023

California Must Extend Zero Emission Vehicle Funding from “AB 8 Fees”

Daniel Barad
Western States Policy Manager

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