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U.S. Nuclear Power Safety One Year After Fukushima
The Fukushima nuclear plant disaster of March 2011 cast a long shadow over U.S. nuclear power policy. A year later, what have we learned, and how well are we putting those lessons into practice?
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The Clean Energy Race: How Do California's Public Utilities Measure Up?
This report from the Union of Concerned Scientists evaluates the renewable energy investments of California's 10 largest publicly owned utilities.
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Increasing Public Understanding of Climate Risks and Choices
An interdisciplinary worksthop to explore the underlying dynamics by which public opinion is formed and changes on climate change.
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Grade A Choice?
Our meat choices have direct implications for the world's forests and climate.
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Logging and the Law
Illegal logging has significant environmental, economic, and societal costs. To address these impacts, implementation of the Lacey Act must be a priority.
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Cooler Smarter: Geek Out on the Data!
To figure out what parts of our lives have the greatest impact on global warming, our experts conducted two years of in-depth research using a computer model that tracked emissions in 500 separate spending categories.
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The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety in 2011
An annual UCS report on the NRC's performance in ensuring nuclear power plant safety.
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Climate Change and Your Health: The Hidden Health Risks of Flooding in a Warming World
The Union of Concerned Scientists documents the costly, and often overlooked, health impacts of extreme precipitation and flooding, and identifies climate change as a growing risk factor for these extreme weather events.
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Recipes for Success
Over the last decade much of the land for vegetable oil production, particularly palm and soybean oil, has come at the expense of tropical forests.
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The Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act
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Increasing Public Understanding of Climate Risks and Choices
An interdisciplinary workshop to explore the underlying dynamics by which public opinion is formed and changes on climate change took place January 19 - 21, 2012, at the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus.
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Emergency Planning for Nuclear Disasters
If a nuclear power accident occurs in the U.S., are we ready?