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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.
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Smart Bioenergy
Bioenergy has the potential to increase energy security, promote economic development, and decrease global warming pollution. But efforts to expand its production and use could have unintended consequences.
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Burning Coal, Burning Cash
We rank the states most dependent on coal imports, highlighting this annual drain on state economies, and suggest how states can keep their funds in-state through investments in energy efficiency and homegrown renewable energy.
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New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
The new treaty limits the number of deployed warheads for each country to 1,550 as well as limits the number of both deployed and non-deployed delivery systems.
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Scientists' Letter on the Copenhagen Commitment for Tropical Forests
The Scientists' Letter on the Copenhagen Commitment for Tropical Forests is a letter asking members of Congress to keep the commitment made by the United States in Copenhagen on
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Raising the Bar in Wisconsin
Increasing the state's renewable electricity standard is achievable and affordable
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A Better Climate Bill
We set out to examine the long-term economic and environmental costs and benefits of increasing the renewable electricity and energy efficiency standards.
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Prospects for Reducing Nitrogen Fertilizer Pollution through Genetic Engineering
UCS finds genetic engineering has yet to produce crops capable of reducing nitrogen pollution, despite increasing research efforts.
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
In the interest of safeguarding U.S. national security and reducing the nuclear threat, the Senate should ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
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Report Documents Pesticide Use Increases on GE Crops
Organic Center report,“Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years,” shows a dramatic rise in the use of glyphosate weed killers (herbicides) on genetically engineered (GE) crops.
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China’s Space Program, 1956–2003
AAAS paper looking at the history of the Chinese space program.