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Explainer
US Missile Defense Timeline
More than 50 percent of test intercepts have failed.
Report
Space Debris from Anti-Satellite Weapons
Space debris is any human-made object in orbit that no longer serves a useful purpose. It includes defunct satellites, discarded equipment and rocket stages, and fragments from the breakup of satellites and rocket stages.
Activist Resource
How to Have an Effective Visit With Your Policy Maker
Tips and Tools for Activists--How to Have an Effective Visit With Your Policy Maker
Report
Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air
How ExxonMobil used tobacco industry tactics to spread disinformation on global warming science and create confusion.
Report
Automaker Rankings 2007
This analysis uses sales and global warming and smog-forming emissions data to rate the bottom-line environmental performance of eight companies.
Explainer
How Hydrokinetic Energy Works
How Hydrokinetic Energy Works, part of the energy 101 series. An introduction to the resource and the technologies that turn the motion of water into electricity.
Report
Cashing In on Clean Energy
Homegrown renewable energy resources—such as wind, solar, bioenergy, and geothermal—can help reduce our dependence on polluting fossil fuels.
Case Study
At NASA, Earth is Removed from Mission Statement
In February 2006, the phrase “to understand and protect the home planet” was removed from the NASA’s official mission statement. Scientists worried the change meant funding would be shifted away from studies of Earth, including climate change research.
Case Study
Can’t Say Climate Change at Carbon Conference
In September 2005, NOAA scientist Dr. Pieter Tans was asked to cancel a conference session on energy use and the carbon cycle due to policy implications and was told that the words “climate change” could not appear in the titles of any presentations.
Case Study
National Assessment of Climate Change
A major study of climate change’s potential consequences for the United States was erased from official government climate science and policy discussions.
Report
Wind Power in New England: Benefits to Local Communities
Wind power can help to improve the environment while also offering new jobs, more money for towns and schools, cleaner air and water, a more reliable electricity supply, and stable energy prices are just some of the many potential benefits.
Report
Wind Power in New England: Reducing Pollution
Wind power is an affordable option for producing some of the electricity New England needs without creating air or water pollution.