From this: Kurt Gottfried, physicist, professor emeritus at Cornell University, advocate for peace, and co-founder of the Union of Concerned Scientists, has passed away at age 93. Throughout his career, Kurt Gottfried encouraged fellow scientists to become involved, to speak …
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From Forbes: There’s a potential risk for automakers that have aligned themselves with President Trump’s attempts to roll back current fuel economy standards that were established under President Obama.
From the Union of Concerned Scientists: Years ago, the EPA determined that use of the popular pesticide should be banned. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for the Trump administration’s first EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, to reverse the decision in 2017 …
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Six House Republicans joined 17 Democrats to ensure that science cannot be distorted or simply thrown aside and ignored in government policy-making. The Union of Concerned Scientists reports: The legislation makes it illegal for anyone to manipulate, suppress, or distort …
While maintaining global temperatures within 1.5 ° C of pre-industrial conditions is imperative to halting a runaway train that will destroy our planet’s capacity to support organized civilization, our practical capacity to accomplish this goal is very much a matter of …
Earlier this week, a three-person team from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), including its president, its director of Center for Science and Democracy, and its director of their Clean Vehicles Program were, after waiting for over four months, finally granted …
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To summarize a conversation that is happening in the comment to my post called Bans on Fracking: Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty supports fracking insofar as every kilowatt-hour of energy that doesn’t come from natural gas will come from coal, which …
If you’re looking to award a prize to the best environmental group in terms of articulating what they see as a “silver lining” after yesterday’s drubbing in the U.S. midterms, you can’t count out the Union of Concerned Scientists. They …
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Here’s something I think readers will enjoy; I know I did. It’s a five-question online quiz called “Got Science?” created by The Union of Concerned Scientists, in which you’ll be asked to choose between real science and the bullcrap being …
Union of Concerned Scientists Offer Online Quiz on Environmental Science — Great Fun Read More »
Nearly every kind of human activity raises the concentration of carbon dioxide and other global warming agents in the atmosphere. The greater the presence of these substances in the air, the more of the sun’s heat that is trapped close …
