All reports
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Nuclear Power in a Warming World
The life cycle of nuclear power results in relatively little global warming pollution, but building a new fleet of plants could increase threats to public safety and national security.
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Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Water Needs
Explanation of water requirements for nuclear plants and the technology involved.
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Space Debris from Anti-Satellite Weapons
Space debris is any human-made object in orbit that no longer serves a useful purpose. It includes defunct satellites, discarded equipment and rocket stages, and fragments from the breakup of satellites and rocket stages.
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Biofuels: An Important Part of a Low-Carbon Diet
A report examining the importance of a comprehensive accounting system to measure global warming emissions over a transportation fuel’s entire life cycle.
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Jobs, Energy, and Fuel Economy
We estimated the effect of moving existing technologies into cars and trucks with the modest goal of reaching a fleetwide average of 35 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2018.
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Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast
Impacts of climate change on the Northeast coast, marine resources, forests, agriculture, winter recreation, health, and water resources.
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New Nuclear Weapons: Reliable Replacement Warhead
Over the next several decades, the so-called Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program would redesign and replace the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal with new warheads.
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Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air
How ExxonMobil used tobacco industry tactics to spread disinformation on global warming science and create confusion.
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Automaker Rankings 2007
This analysis uses sales and global warming and smog-forming emissions data to rate the bottom-line environmental performance of eight companies.
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Cashing In on Clean Energy
Homegrown renewable energy resources—such as wind, solar, bioenergy, and geothermal—can help reduce our dependence on polluting fossil fuels.
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Wind Power in New England: Benefits to Local Communities
Wind power can help to improve the environment while also offering new jobs, more money for towns and schools, cleaner air and water, a more reliable electricity supply, and stable energy prices are just some of the many potential benefits.
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Wind Power in New England: Reducing Pollution
Wind power is an affordable option for producing some of the electricity New England needs without creating air or water pollution.