Energy Resources

US electricity infrastructure is aging, inadequate, and vulnerable. Clean energy investments can help.

Self-driving cars could help or harm access to jobs and transportation. It depends on what policies we choose.

We quantified Californians' exposure to dangerous air pollution. Particulate matter disproportionately affects Californians of color and low-income communities.

Heavy duty vehicles play a major role in our everyday lives—but their pollutants pose many health risks.

UCS outlined 10 key strategies that state legislators, regulators, and other stakeholders can follow.

Nuclear power provides low-carbon electricity, though its long-term role in combatting climate change depends on overcoming economic and safety hurdles.

The faster that Illinois can retire its aging, inefficient coal plants, the better.

An in-depth analysis of eight major fossil fuel companies finds they continue to spread climate disinformation and have failed to adequately plan their businesses for a low-carbon world.

Reducing transportation emissions will bring dramatic financial, environmental, and health benefits.

More than one-third of US nuclear plants are unprofitable or scheduled to close. If they’re replaced by natural gas, emissions will rise—with serious consequences for the climate.