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Wood for Good
Smart choices by consumers, businesses, and governments can significantly reduce the impacts of logging in tropical forests.
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Cream of the Crop
Organic dairy farms don't just provide healthy milk using environmentally friendly methods—they also provide a viable economic alternative for dairy farmers who don't want to "grow big or get out."
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Truck Electrification
Battery, fuel cell, and hybrid technologies are already at work in today's commercial vehicles—and are poised to expand in the years ahead.
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Biomass Resources in the United States
This analysis details the biomass resources that could be sustainably produced and utilized in the United States for energy and fuel, focusing on energy crops, agricultural residues, waste materials, and forest biomass.
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Got Science? Not at News Corporation
Representations of climate science on Fox News Channel and in the Wall Street Journal opinion pages are overwhelmingly misleading
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U.S. Nuclear Power Safety One Year After Fukushima
The Fukushima nuclear plant disaster of March 2011 cast a long shadow over U.S. nuclear power policy. A year later, what have we learned, and how well are we putting those lessons into practice?
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The X-37B “Space Plane”
The administration and Congress should re-examine why they are spending money on the X-37B.
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Protecting Consumers from Pain at the Gas Pump
We can protect ourselves from future oil price spikes by cutting the country’s projected oil use in half over the next 20 years — and the production of clean, fuel-efficient vehicles is a critical first step.
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The Clean Energy Race: How Do California's Public Utilities Measure Up?
This report from the Union of Concerned Scientists evaluates the renewable energy investments of California's 10 largest publicly owned utilities.
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Increasing Public Understanding of Climate Risks and Choices
An interdisciplinary worksthop to explore the underlying dynamics by which public opinion is formed and changes on climate change.
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Grade A Choice?
Our meat choices have direct implications for the world's forests and climate.
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High and Dry
Droughts can be devastating to farmers and food supplies. The biotech industry has touted the potential of genetic engineering to reduce the impact of drought. But the results so far are modest compared to non-GE approaches—and the costs are high.