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The Most Expensive Thing We Can Do is Nothing
Top economists agree: Blocking California’s clean energy law will be costly.
Explainer
The Health Effects of Hotter Days and Nights
The highest tolerable wet-bulb temperature could be exceeded for the first time in human history in future climate scenarios.
Explainer
How Nuclear Power Works
At a basic level, nuclear power is the practice of splitting atoms to boil water, turn turbines, and generate electricity.
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Control Rods at Peach Bottom
The workers at Peach Bottom artfully—and likely illegally—played games with safety and operating license requirements to keep the Unit 2 reactor operating despite known safety shortcomings.
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Verification of New START
The New START treaty streamlines the verification measures from START I without sacrificing any essential information, while adding the most intrusive verification system ever implemented for counting nuclear warheads.
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Delivering Jobs
Investing in fuel-efficient technologies for heavy-duty trucks can save their owners money at the pump, create tens of thousands of jobs across the economy, reduce the nation’s dependence on oil, and help combat climate change.
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Nuclear Power Subsidies Will Shift Financial Risks to Taxpayers
Massive new subsidies will only further mask nuclear power’s considerable costs and risks while disadvantaging more cost-effective and less risky carbon reduction measures that can be implemented much more quickly.
Explainer
Water and Climate Change
With climate change, the water cycle is expected to undergo significant change.
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How to Reform Biofuels Tax Polices
How biofuels tax policies must be reformed to cut global warming pollution and save oil.
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How to Get Advanced Biofuels Off the Ground
The Billion Gallon Challenge shows how new policies are needed to realize the promise of clean cellulosic biofuels.
Feature
Who Chooses Where Electricity Comes From?
Who's got the power to choose where your electricity comes from?
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Legal Harassment of Michael Mann
UCS has assembled a timeline of events, editorial comments and statements from scientists, academics and other groups related to Cuccinelli’s demand.