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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

This arrangement was negotiated 25 years ago and is part of a decades-old program of cooperation on nuclear technology, which includes agreements not to use this assistance for military purposes. These agreements often involve the transfer of reactor technology, supply of nuclear fuel, and training of specialists to operate the reactors.

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CLEE’s New Executive Director

Legal Planet

In 2020, she won the Science in Public Service Award from the California Council on Science and Technology. These activities involved collaboration with stakeholders, legislators, and agencies throughout state government. million as part of the federal National Disaster Resilience Competition.

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Progress Continues for US Residential Solar: Reviewing the Latest Numbers

Union of Concerned Scientists

Part of that progress is due to the increasing dominance of more-efficient mono-crystalline technologies (the ones with smooth-looking single-crystal cells). For residential systems, their share rose from 41 percent in 2016 to 98 percent in 2021. From 2016 to 2021 storage leapt from 0.1 Source: LBNL 2022. Source: LBNL 2022.

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Environmental Law Again Front-and-Center at California Supreme Court

Legal Planet

In 2016 Monterey County voters passed Measure Z, a citizen initiative intended to bar the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the county and ban the use of fracking technology for existing wells in Monterey County. The oil and gas industry, led by Chevron U.S.A.,

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Greenland Dispatch #1: the Courage to Face Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

In just four years of global warming, 2012-2016, more than one trillion tons of Greenlandic ice were lost: enough ice melt to fill a pool the size of the state of New York to a depth of twenty-three feet. But science also tells us that we have most of the technologies and solutions that we need.

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Greenwashing in Graphs: an ExxonMobil Story

Union of Concerned Scientists

A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossil energy facilities. C to 2°C,” and, “Implementation of CCS currently faces technological, economic, institutional, ecological-environmental, and socio-cultural barriers.” Why do Exxon’s greenwashed graphs matter?

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Former MDPI CEO Dr. Franck Vazquez joins Frontiers

Frontiers

Dr. Vazquez served as the chief scientific officer of MDPI from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2019 to 2021, and as the chief executive officer from 2016 to 2019. Using the latest technology, platforms, and services, Frontiers’ team of more than 750 employees aims to unlock science through open-access.

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