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Market Forces

Modest public support for up to 500 farmers markets each year could create as many as 13,500 jobs over a five-year period.
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Farmworkers harvesting lettuce in California

A Bright Future for the Heartland

UCS analysis shows how the Midwest can turn the challenges of a stalled economy and an unsustainable, polluting energy system into an opportunity for economic prosperity, job growth, and a healthy environment.
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Power and Water At Risk

Our demand for electricity is colliding with our need for healthy and abundant freshwater. As our demand for electricity continues to rise, water dependence puts the electricity sector, water resources, and other water users at growing risk.
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Workers at Fukushima

Nuclear Crisis in Japan

UCS coverage of the crisis that developed at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the wake of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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Tapping Into Wind Power

Wind power is one of the most cost-effective sources of electricity available, capable of generating power at prices competitive with new natural gas plants and cheaper than new coal and nuclear plants.
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Points of Reference

Setting deforestation reference levels is a complex and contentious issue. But we should not let it delay REDD+ implementation.
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An illustration of a satellite weapon

Space-Based Missile Defense

A spaced-based missile defense system would require many hundreds of orbiting interceptors to defend against one or two missiles, and it would have serious inherent vulnerabilities that would render it ineffective.

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