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June 18, 2025

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June 17, 2025

Worsening Wildfires Contribute to Increasingly Unaffordable Insurance and Housing Costs

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June 17, 2025

Railroads Are Running Dirty Diesel Trains Through Communities and No One Is Doing Anything About It

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June 28, 2023

#DangerSeason Unleashed: Killer Heat Threatens 75 Million in US South, No End in Sight Through Next Week

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June 28, 2023

For the First Time Ever, the White House Adopts a Model Scientific Integrity Policy

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June 28, 2023

Blink and It’s Gone: a Weekend in Beijing

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June 28, 2023

Four Things to Look for When You Watch the Oppenheimer Film

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June 27, 2023

EPA Must Protect Communities from Sterilizer Plants’ Carcinogenic Emissions

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June 26, 2023

Update the Electricity Grid Without Undermining Environmental Protections

Sam Gomberg
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June 26, 2023

Why Living Above the Poverty Line Doesn’t Guarantee Food Security

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June 22, 2023

Climate Reality vs. Public Perception: Will Toxic Haze and the 2023 Danger Season Make a Difference?

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June 21, 2023

La Temporada de Peligros climáticos está aquí. ¿Qué puede significar esto para Puerto Rico?

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Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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June 20, 2023

The United States Needs to Protect Its Farmworkers from “Danger Season”

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June 15, 2023

We Must Do Right by Farmworkers, Slaughterhouse Workers, and Food Service Employees

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June 15, 2023

It’s Danger Season and Workers Need Heat Safety Protections Now—UPS Knows It

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June 14, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

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June 13, 2023

A Year After the Deadly Pakistan Floods Began, Hard Lessons About Climate Loss and Damage

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June 13, 2023

Did You Know That Soil Health Affects Human Health?

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Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables: A Price on Reliability?

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June 9, 2023

The US Supreme Court Upholds the Voting Rights Act, and Election Science, For Now

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June 7, 2023

Worsening Risks of Climate Change Expose the Need for—and Hard Limits of—Property Insurance

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June 6, 2023

Bridge to Troubled Waters: US Supreme Court Guts Wetlands Protections

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Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

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June 6, 2023

Replacing California’s Oldest and Dirtiest Cars Will Save Money and Lives

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June 5, 2023

California Agriculture Could Use an Ancient History Lesson

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Lecciones de historia antigua podrían ayudar la agricultura de California

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June 2, 2023

OMB Proposes Science-Based Guidance for Modernizing Regulatory Review

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