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Green Travel Report: Getting There Greener (2008)
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Skip to main content. Union of Concerned Scientists. Center for Science and Democracy. Make a Planned Gift. More Ways to Give. The HEAL Food Alliance. Getting There Greener (2008). What's the lowest-carbon way to take your next vacation? The Union of Concerned Scientists presents the first comprehensive analysis peer-reviewed by experts of the highest-carbon and lowest-carbon options for vacation travel. This analysis shows that three key factors determine the environmental impact of your travel:. This a...
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The Center for Science and Democracy
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Skip to main content. Union of Concerned Scientists. Center for Science and Democracy. Make a Planned Gift. More Ways to Give. The HEAL Food Alliance. Center for Science and Democracy. The Center for Science. Engaged scientists an informed public = a stronger democracy. Please leave this field empty. Science and democracy are powerful partners. But today, this legacy is slipping away. Under these conditions, it is more important now than ever for scientists and citizens to work together,. Exposing and ch...
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Industrial Agriculture | Union of Concerned Scientists
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Skip to main content. Union of Concerned Scientists. Center for Science and Democracy. Make a Planned Gift. More Ways to Give. The HEAL Food Alliance. The outdated, unsustainable system that dominates U.S. food production. Today, the majority of American farmland is dominated by industrial agriculture the system of chemically intensive food production developed in the decades after World War II, featuring enormous single-crop farms and animal production facilities. Monoculture farming relies heavily on c...
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Clean Energy | Union of Concerned Scientists
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Skip to main content. Union of Concerned Scientists. Center for Science and Democracy. Make a Planned Gift. More Ways to Give. The HEAL Food Alliance. The better, cleaner way to meet. Please leave this field empty. Power generation is a leading cause of air pollution and the single largest source of U.S. global warming emissions. Coal is the worst offender, a dirty energy source that produces less than half our electricity but nearly 80 percent of all power plant carbon emissions. Renewable energy resour...
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What is the Clean Power Plan? A Climate Game Changer | Union of Concerned Scientists
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Skip to main content. Union of Concerned Scientists. Center for Science and Democracy. Make a Planned Gift. More Ways to Give. The HEAL Food Alliance. The Clean Power Plan: A Climate Game Changer. A historic opportunity to reduce carbon pollution from the single largest source of U.S. global warming emissions. Power plants account for nearly 40 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. That's more than every car, truck, and plane in the U.S. combined. Photo: alohaspirit/iStock. UPDATE (February 10, 2016):.
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Clean Vehicles | Union of Concerned Scientists
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Skip to main content. Union of Concerned Scientists. Center for Science and Democracy. Make a Planned Gift. More Ways to Give. The HEAL Food Alliance. Practical solutions to cut. Projected US oil use in. Please leave this field empty. Fuel Economy Standards and the Mid-term Review (2016). See all Clean Vehicles reports. Who’s Leading on Electric Cars? And Who’s Lagging Behind? August 24, 2016. Big Breakthrough for Big Rigs: The EPA’s New Fuel Economy Rule for Trucks. August 16, 2016. August 3, 2016.
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Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (2009)
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Skip to main content. Union of Concerned Scientists. Center for Science and Democracy. Make a Planned Gift. More Ways to Give. The HEAL Food Alliance. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture. Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (2009). For years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields. That promise has proven to be empty, according to. The study reviewed the intrins...
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Union of Concerned Scientists Gives Monsanto an ‘F’ in Sustainable Agriculture
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Skip to main content. Union of Concerned Scientists. Center for Science and Democracy. Make a Planned Gift. More Ways to Give. The HEAL Food Alliance. February 7, 2012. Union of Concerned Scientists Gives Monsanto an ‘F’ in Sustainable Agriculture. Science Group’s New Web Feature Documents Eight Ways Monsanto is Taking Agriculture in the Wrong Direction. WASHINGTON (February 7, 2012) The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today published a new web feature. Monsanto’s public relations campaigns trumpet t...
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Global Warming 101 | Union of Concerned Scientists
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Skip to main content. Union of Concerned Scientists. Center for Science and Democracy. Make a Planned Gift. More Ways to Give. The HEAL Food Alliance. What is global warming? Think of a blanket, covering the Earth. And other heat-trapping emissions are released into the air, they act like a blanket, holding heat in our atmosphere and warming the planet. Overloading our atmosphere with carbon has far-reaching effects. For people all around the world, including rising sea levels. And more severe droughts.
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Atmosphere of Pressure: Political Interference in Federal Climate Science (2007) | Union of Concerned Scientists
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Skip to main content. Union of Concerned Scientists. Center for Science and Democracy. Make a Planned Gift. More Ways to Give. The HEAL Food Alliance. Center for Science and Democracy. Atmosphere of Pressure: Political Interference in Federal Climate Science (2007). These two complementary investigations arrived at similar conclusions regarding the state of federal climate research: while scientists hold a high regard for the quality of federal climate change research, there is broad interference in comm...
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