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December 16, 2025

The Exploding Scope of the Military-Industrial Complex

Members of both major political parties have begun to question ballooning defense expenditures, which have almost tripled since the 1990s.

Sean Manning
Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow

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The Generations of Public Service We Lost in 2025

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December 15, 2025

Disinformation Undermines Our Right to Science

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Senior Climate Campaign Manager

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Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow

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October 5, 2012

Fact Check: Koch-Funded Group Misleads Michigan Voters on Clean Energy

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Director of State Policy and Analysis

October 5, 2012

Online Course on CTBT Verification Technologies

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October 4, 2012

Michigan’s 25 Percent Renewable Electricity Standard is Good for Consumers

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Policy Director

October 4, 2012

UCS Satelllite Database Update: Passing the 1,000 Mark

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Clean Energy Blurs Political Lines (Despite What You Hear on TV)

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October 2, 2012

Fission Stories #112: If I Only Had a Drain: Trouble at the Wolf Creek Spent Fuel Pool

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October 1, 2012

Garwin Comments on National Academies’ Missile Defense Report

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September 28, 2012

Energy-Water Collisions Hit Washington's Radar

John Rogers
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September 27, 2012

Signed, Stamped, and Delivered: Nearly 20,000 Postcards Call on News Corporation to Stop Misleading on Climate Science

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September 27, 2012

If You Can’t Take the Heat: How Summer 2012 Strained U.S. Power Plants

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

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New Guide for Scientists: Responding to Criticism and Personal Attacks

Michael Halpern
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September 26, 2012

China in Focus #8: Snippets of Chinese Political History

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

September 26, 2012

California Strives to Remain Ahead in Zero Emission Vehicles

Don Anair
Deputy Director & Research Director, Clean Transportation

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Reactors in Hot Water

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September 25, 2012

The CMRR: Not Dead Yet

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

September 25, 2012

Fission Stories #111: Lordy Byron! Another Wakeup Call for the NRC

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

September 24, 2012

Are Some Californians Paying Too Much to Charge their Plug-in Vehicles?

Don Anair
Deputy Director & Research Director, Clean Transportation

September 20, 2012

The Risk of Nuclear War with China

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East Asia Project Manager

September 20, 2012

What the World Needs Now Is Arctic Oil… Like I Need a Hole in My Head

David Friedman
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September 20, 2012

Carbon Measurements on the Chopping Block

Todd Sanford
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September 19, 2012

Is NRC Hiding an American Fukushima?

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September 18, 2012

A Third Era for Nuclear Weapons?

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