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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
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May 13, 2025

What is a Just Land Transition?

Amanda Fencl
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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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January 7, 2020

Five Reasons Midwestern States Need a Clean Fuel Standard

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January 6, 2020

The US Senate Faces a Moral Imperative

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Trump EPA Doing Something to Actually REDUCE Pollution from Trucks

Dave Cooke
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January 6, 2020

It’s 2020. Massachusetts Needs to Move Faster on Climate and Clean Energy. Here’s How

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January 3, 2020

Profiles in Cowardice: EPA’s Abysmal Failure to Protect Children’s Health

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January 2, 2020

Nine Trendy Words for the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Science

Andrew Rosenberg
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January 2, 2020

EPA Science Advisors Tear Into Agency’s “Transparency” Proposal

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December 30, 2019

Baby Shark Cereal and Maple Syrup Collusion: Why Competition in Our Food System Matters

Rebecca Boehm
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December 23, 2019

Natural Resources Committee Embraces Collaborative Governance

Michael Latner
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December 20, 2019

The US Power Sector’s Decade In Review: Clean Energy Ascendant, Fossil Fuels Intransigent

Julie McNamara
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As the San Joaquin Valley Grows Hotter, Questions Arise About Future Power Grid Reliability

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December 20, 2019

The Human Side of Nuclear Weapons Issues in the FY20 Defense Bill

Lilly Adams
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December 20, 2019

Reflections on a Dysfunctional Climate Summit

Alden Meyer
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December 20, 2019

President Trump Badly Losing his War on Federal Funding for Clean Energy

Rob Cowin
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December 19, 2019

UCS Satellite Database Update: More than 2,200 Active Satellites

Laura Grego
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December 19, 2019

Jane Fonda Is Going to Jail This Weekend. Here’s Why I Joined Her on the Barricades

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December 19, 2019

Reflections from COP25 in Madrid

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Recent FERC Decision Will Raise Electricity Bills in Illinois

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December 19, 2019

The Climate Decade: A Global Crisis Unveiled, a Global Movement Unleashed

Erika Spanger
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December 19, 2019

Making the grass GREENER on the other side with H.R. 763

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December 18, 2019

Record 2019 Precipitation in Midwest Financially Crushed Farmers

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December 18, 2019

Farm State Voters See Soil as a Solution to Agriculture’s Woes

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December 17, 2019

2019 Year in Review: The Times When Fossil Fuel Companies Misled Investors

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Environmental Justice in 2019: Impacts and Anniversaries

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