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October 7, 2025

Why Planting Too Much Corn Hurts Farmers—and the Environment

US agriculture encourages farmers to plant too much corn, which drives prices down and increases pollution that harms our water and climate.

Kathryn Anderson
Program Director, Food & Environment

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October 6, 2025

After Decades, Relief for Some Harmed by the Nuclear Weapons Industry

Lilly Adams
Senior Outreach Coordinator

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October 6, 2025

An Abundant Blindspot

David Watkins
Director of Government Affairs, Climate & Energy Program

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Dylan Spaulding

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Paula Garcia

Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst and Energy Justice Lead

Kathy Mulvey

Accountability Campaign Director, Climate & Energy Program

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August 29, 2011

A Summer of Soaring Temperatures and Power Prices

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

August 29, 2011

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

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

August 29, 2011

The Old Problem of CAFE’s New Math

Jim Kliesch
Former contributor

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

August 28, 2011

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

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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August 28, 2011

Clean, Fuel Efficient Cars for Our Kids

Michelle Robinson
Former Contributor

August 28, 2011

Scientific Integrity at the EPA and NSF

Francesca Grifo
Former contributor

August 27, 2011

Comedy is Simply a Funny Way of Being Serious

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

August 25, 2011

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

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

August 25, 2011

Biotechnology – A Failed Promise

Margaret Mellon
Former contributor

August 23, 2011

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

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

August 19, 2011

Chinese Launch Failure: No Apparent Impact on Tiangong I Preparations

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

August 16, 2011

Fission Stories #53: Read Between the Lines

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

August 15, 2011

Nuclear Weapons Budget and the Budget Control Act

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

August 11, 2011

Keep on the Sunny Side

Jeremy Martin
Director of Fuels Policy

August 10, 2011

China Set to Launch Its Space Lab: Tiangong I

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

August 9, 2011

Fission Stories #52: Soft Ice Causes Problems, Too

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

August 2, 2011

Fission Stories #51: Hard Water (a.k.a. Ice) Causes Problems

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

August 1, 2011

UCS’s Take on NRC’s Post-Fukushima Recommendations

Lisbeth Gronlund
Former UCS Global Security Program Co-Director

July 29, 2011

NRC Study Shows the Serious Consequences of a Fukushima- Type Accident in the US

Ed Lyman
Director, Nuclear Power Safety

July 28, 2011

NRC Fast track or Cul-de-sac?

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

July 27, 2011

Mullen in China, Revisited

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

July 26, 2011

Fission Stories #50: Manual Inaction

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

July 20, 2011

China’s Newest Missiliers

Gregory Kulacki
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