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![Flooded Scituate, MA Harbor Coast Guard Station](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/ScituateHarbor-SLR-Coastal-Deadlines-Thumb.jpg?itok=KaLDGflX)
Looming Deadlines for Coastal Resilience
Between now and 2050, climate change–driven sea level rise will expose more than 1,600 critical buildings and services to disruptive flooding at least twice per year.
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Improving Election Data Transparency
Recommendations for states on best practices for improving election data transparency.
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![The State House in California.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/1500-900-ca-state-house.jpg?itok=MJPzaITk)
Follow the Money
According to new analysis, federal infrastructure investments in California may fall short of Justice40 Initiative goals.
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![graphic depiction of cost to fuel an electric vehicle vs a gasoline-powered car](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-03/ev-benefits-state-fact-sheets-car-graphic.jpg?itok=r4RclFhM)
State Electric Vehicle Benefits
In virtually every state, electric vehicles are cheaper than gasoline-powered cars to fuel and drive.
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![photo of a wall plaque made of dark wood with gold lettering that reads "SR-328A Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry"](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/ag%20committee.jpg?itok=2aegCdo_)
Cultivating Control
Between 2019 and 2023, "Big Ag" spent over half a billion dollars to influence food policies that are bad for people and the environment.
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![A graph showing the protection status of groundwater wells in San Joaquin Valley.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-04/groundwater%20well%20status_Eng.png?itok=NIjFeIRM)
Understanding Future Groundwater Sustainability Scenarios
Understanding the future of groundwater sustainability, including sustainability in diverse climate change scenarios, is crucial for low-income and farmworker communities.
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![photo of a PVC pipe disgorging a high volume of greenish-brown wastewater into a body of freshwater](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-03/wastewater_scaled.png?itok=dQ_Vd27M)
Waste Deep
Water pollutants from Tyson Foods' meat processing plants pose a risk to both people and the environment.
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![Proximity of power stations to EJ neighborhoods.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-03/generators-proximity-thumbnail.jpg?itok=AXSEWFRp)
Siting for a Cleaner, More Equitable Grid in Massachusetts
Deciding where new energy infrastructure is built is a crucial consideration for the clean energy transition.
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![Electric power substation](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-03/1500-900-power-grid.jpg?itok=iSSrKSn_)
Barriers and Solutions to Building Clean Energy in California
For California to achieve its 2045 clean energy goals, it needs to roughly triple its clean energy capacity.
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![A figure labeled "Generation Failures by Fules Type During Five Extreme Winter Storms" showing that gas plants accounted for most of the failed capacity in five recent extreme winter weather events.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/Fig1_web-01.jpg?itok=7DwtLfkW)
Gas Malfunction
The United States is overly reliant on gas plants—and extreme weather is causing them to fail at alarming rates.
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![Three panelists lined up at SACNAS.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-12/UCS-SACNAS-thumbnail.jpg?itok=7aasSmem)
UCS JEDI Report 2023
This document summarizes the past year of efforts by staff and board members to transform UCS into an anti-racist organization.
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Drivers of Domestic Wells Vulnerability During Droughts in California's Central Valley
A peer-reviewed article in Environmental Research Letters.