Reports

This first-of-its-kind study takes an innovative approach to the controversial subject by highlighting the case study of a real-world business in the Los Angeles area.

This report shows that the NRC is not living up to its self-stated mission when it comes to accidental releases of radioactive liquids and gases from nuclear power plants.

The Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for nuclear weapons and nonproliferation includes major increases in funding for new facilities, for warhead maintenance, and for nonproliferation programs.

In 2009, UCS took part in an independent effort to examine and suggest ideas to support a diplomatic approach aimed at engaging North Korea and ending its nuclear and missile programs.

Undue influence by special interests and public officials routinely inhibits the ability of inspectors to protect our food supply.

Model year 2012–2016 national standards save oil, cut emissions, and save money at the pump

Top economists agree: Blocking California’s clean energy law will be costly.

The workers at Peach Bottom artfully—and likely illegally—played games with safety and operating license requirements to keep the Unit 2 reactor operating despite known safety shortcomings.

Investing in fuel-efficient technologies for heavy-duty trucks can save their owners money at the pump, create tens of thousands of jobs across the economy, reduce the nation’s dependence on oil, and help combat climate change.

The New START treaty streamlines the verification measures from START I without sacrificing any essential information, while adding the most intrusive verification system ever implemented for counting nuclear warheads.

Massive new subsidies will only further mask nuclear power’s considerable costs and risks while disadvantaging more cost-effective and less risky carbon reduction measures that can be implemented much more quickly.

How biofuels tax policies must be reformed to cut global warming pollution and save oil.

The Billion Gallon Challenge shows how new policies are needed to realize the promise of clean cellulosic biofuels.

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.

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.

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

Increasing the state's renewable electricity standard is achievable and affordable

UCS finds genetic engineering has yet to produce crops capable of reducing nitrogen pollution, despite increasing research efforts.

In the interest of safeguarding U.S. national security and reducing the nuclear threat, the Senate should ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

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.

AAAS paper looking at the history of the Chinese space program.

Clean, renewable forms of energy are available in most parts of the world and could readily be harnessed to power our economies.