Reports & Multimedia

If better managed, U.S. garbage and wastewater could produce significant amounts of clean, low-carbon energy.

Our world is full of chemicals, and some of them are hazardous to our health or to the environment. We need smart, effective policies to help us minimize these risks--and that means policymakers need to listen to scientists, not industry lobbyists.

New rules would help trucks save millions of barrels of oil—but more can be done.

"Green banks," institutions that use innovative financing initiatives to assist customers with developing clean energy, can help states increase investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

We need chemical policy reform for the health and safety of all Americans. Guess who's standing in the way?

Leaked documents show that the world's largest fossil fuel companies have deliberately deceived the public for nearly 30 years about the realities and risks of climate change.

An in-depth analysis of eight leading fossil fuel companies finds that none of them has made a clean break from disinformation on climate science and policy.

UCS serves a nuclear safety watchdog. Here are our recommendations for safer, more secure nuclear power.

Despite the remarkable human, environmental and economic benefits they have produced, 20th-century policy innovations are under attack in the 21st century.

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