Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Thursday, November 30, 2017 Pruitt’s RFS Decision Defies Science, Undercuts Development of New Fuels Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has finalized a change to biofuels policy, lowering the amount of cellulosic biofuel required under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). While political pressure from agricultural interests partly checked Pruitt’s effort to... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, November 28, 2017 In Cities Across the Country, Driving Electric Is Cheaper Than Gasoline It’s much cheaper to charge a car than fill it with gasoline, according to the study “ Going from Pump to Plug: Adding up the Savings from Electric Vehicles ,” released by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today. The analysis compared electricity rates and gasoline prices in 57 cities around... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, November 17, 2017 The Road to Katowice: Increasing Global Ambition, Political Will on Climate Change Action The United Nations’ annual climate talks, this year known as COP23, aimed at making progress on developing the rules for implementation of the Paris Agreement—a worldwide commitment to reduce global warming emissions and limit the increase in global temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius—is... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, November 14, 2017 Experts Discuss Varied Costs of Climate Change, Quantify Climate Impacts and Damages Attributed to Top Fossil Fuel Producers Experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) today discussed recent extreme weather events—both in the U.S. and abroad—intensifying due to climate change... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, November 10, 2017 US Businesses, Labor, Environmental Leaders Focus on Cooperative Efforts to Fight Climate Change Leaders from the BlueGreen Alliance were joined today by The Business Council for Sustainable Energy, United Steelworkers and the Union of Concerned Scientists at the United Nations’ 23rd annual climate change summit, also called COP23, in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how cooperative efforts are... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, November 07, 2017 Syria to Join Paris Agreement, Leaving Trump in Isolation on Climate Change Inaction At the United Nations climate talks in Bonn, Germany today, Syria announced it will join the Paris Agreement leaving the United States as the only nation to say it will not participate in the global effort to tackle climate change. The announcement happened during a plenary session at the climate... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, November 03, 2017 National Climate Assessment Moves Through Scientific Process to Diagnose US Climate Change Ills The first public draft of the highly anticipated 4th National Climate Assessment (NCA), was released for public comment today. The NCA—a quadrennial report mandated by Congress in 1990—is developed by the U.S. Global Change Research Program to help the nation “understand, assess, predict and... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, November 02, 2017 Cuts to Electric Vehicle and Clean Energy Tax Credits Will Undermine Growing Industries, Take Us Backward on Climate The draft tax bill released today by the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee would eliminate the electric vehicle tax credit, axe the permanent 10 percent Investment Tax Credit for solar and geothermal power, and reduce the Production Tax Credit for wind power by more than a third. These provisions... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, November 01, 2017 US Solar Industry, Jobs Still at Risk Following International Trade Commission Decision The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) today issued three recommendations for how President Trump can restrict the imports of photovoltaic cells and modules. These materials are integral for the booming domestic solar industry. Today’s recommendations follow a USITC finding last month that... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Pruitt Actions on EPA Advisory Board Undermine Independent Science, Put Americans at Risk Today, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is expected to announce new members of key science advisory boards and dismiss from the boards academic scientists who have received EPA grant funding. In appointing new members to the primary Science Advisory Board (SAB) and... Read more |