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President Trump’s Handouts to Fossil Fuel Industry Will Cost Public $80 Billion Over Next Decade

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August 31, 2011

NRC’s Path After Fukushima: Still Lined with Pitfalls

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No Guilt by Association for Electric Cars

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The Billion Gallon Challenge – Getting Advanced Biofuels Back on Track

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Powering Wisconsin's Economy with Clean Energy

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Fission Stories #55: Too Much of a Good Thing

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electric Cars

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August 29, 2011

Will Genetic Engineering Divert Us from Essential Food Production Science?

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August 29, 2011

A Summer of Soaring Temperatures and Power Prices

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August 29, 2011

Irene Is the 10th Billion-Dollar Weather Disaster for 2011

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August 29, 2011

The Old Problem of CAFE’s New Math

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August 28, 2011

New Obama Administration Rules Tackle Global Warming Emissions and Fuel Consumption of Big Trucks

Don Anair
Deputy Director & Research Director, Clean Transportation

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The High, Hidden Costs of Pollution from Coal-fired Electricity

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Clean, Fuel Efficient Cars for Our Kids

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Scientific Integrity at the EPA and NSF

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August 27, 2011

Comedy is Simply a Funny Way of Being Serious

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August 25, 2011

California's Governor Brown Calls for 12,000 Megawatts of Clean, Local Electricity by 2020

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August 25, 2011

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August 23, 2011

Fission Stories #54: “Less Control Room Attention Than Necessary…”

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August 19, 2011

Chinese Launch Failure: No Apparent Impact on Tiangong I Preparations

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Fission Stories #53: Read Between the Lines

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Nuclear Weapons Budget and the Budget Control Act

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