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May 13, 2025

Putting Science to Work for Security: A Call to Prevent Nuclear Testing

Scientists have a role to play in protecting our collective future by speaking in opposition to a resumption of nuclear weapons testing.

Dylan Spaulding
Senior Scientist

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May 13, 2025

What is a Just Land Transition?

Amanda Fencl
Director of Climate Science, Climate and Energy

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May 13, 2025

Denial, Restriction and Manipulation: New Trump Administration Targets Voting Rights, Fair Representation

Liza Gordon-Rogers
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September 19, 2022

Five Things to Know About the Updated EV Charging Tax Credit

Samantha Houston
Senior Vehicles Analyst

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September 15, 2022

Inequitable Health Impacts from Wildfire Smoke Increased by Danger Season

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September 14, 2022

Ethylene Oxide at the Intersection of Climate, Environment, and Social Justice

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Susan McPherson

September 14, 2022

Dispatch from Greenland: the Courage to Face Climate Change

Johanna Chao Kreilick
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President Joe Biden greets farm workers in Central Lake, Michigan.

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September 13, 2022

President Biden’s Farm Bill Must Transform Our Food System

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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September 12, 2022

Can the Electric Grid Handle EV Charging?

Samantha Houston
Senior Vehicles Analyst

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September 9, 2022

Mishandling of Classified Nuclear Documents Is Bad. Mishandling of the Sole Authority to Use Nuclear Weapons Would Be Much Worse.

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

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September 8, 2022

What 115°F in California’s Central Valley Feels Like

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Director of Innovation and Collaboration

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September 8, 2022

Ask a Scientist: How to Thwart Threats to Democracy

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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September 8, 2022

Survey Shows Preference for EVs, Barriers Faced by Different Racial Groups

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

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September 7, 2022

New UCS Survey Asks Federal Scientists: How are You Faring in the Biden Administration?

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

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September 7, 2022

Failure to Plan Could Create an Energy Crisis

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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September 6, 2022

The World’s Most Important Nuclear Treaty Faces New Threats, Familiar Failures

Jennifer Knox
Policy & Research Analyst

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September 5, 2022

Desperate Tampering Industry Trying to Pass RPM Act to Continue Polluting

Dave Cooke
Senior Vehicles Analyst

An industrial facility in Texas is shown submerged in water after Hurricane Ike

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Flickr

September 2, 2022

New Global Energy Market Risk: War Pushes Overreliance on US LNG in Path of Climate-Amped Hurricanes

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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August 31, 2022

September Is Here. That Means Another Nail-Biter for California’s Grid.

Mark Specht
Western States Energy Manager/Senior Analyst

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August 31, 2022

New US Policy Makes Federal Science Accessible to All

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

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August 26, 2022

Can the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Avoid a Major Disaster?

Ed Lyman
Director, Nuclear Power Safety

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August 24, 2022

California Needs a Petroleum Phaseout Plan

Jeremy Martin
Senior Scientist and Director of Fuels Policy

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August 24, 2022

Rare and Severe Weather Events Are Now More Common Thanks to Climate Change

Brenda Ekwurzel
Director of Scientific Excellence

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August 23, 2022

Look What Can Happen When Congress Enacts Science-Based Policy

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

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August 22, 2022

Can California Stop Selling Polluting Cars by 2035? Yes It Can.

David Reichmuth
Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program

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August 22, 2022

Four Months into Danger Season, Here’s the Tally of Extreme Heat, Floods, Fire Weather Events

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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August 19, 2022

Will the Biden Administration’s Chemical Disaster Rule Finally Make Communities Safer?

Genna Reed
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