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May 16, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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April 13, 2023

Ask a Scientist: The Electric Car and Power Grid’s Shared Future

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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March 14, 2023

Ask a Scientist: New UCS Federal Scientist Survey Shows Real Progress

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

Satelite view of the Livanova commercial sterilizer in Arvada, CO

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February 9, 2023

Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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January 12, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Confronting Putin’s Nuclear Threat

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland from Just Stop Oil addressing the public after throwing tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (1888).

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December 8, 2022

Ask a Scientist: In Moments of Despair, Climate Progress Can Keep Hope Alive

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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October 12, 2022

Ask a Scientist: What’s Up With the Attack on ESG Investing?

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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September 8, 2022

Ask a Scientist: How to Thwart Threats to Democracy

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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August 10, 2022

Ask a Scientist: ‘Danger Season’ Summers Disproportionately Harm Disadvantaged Communities

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

A view under the hood of a 2017 Chevrolet Volt

July 13, 2022

Ask a Scientist: In Search of a ‘Green’ Electric Car Battery

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

Highlighted definition of disinformation from a a dictionary page

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June 8, 2022

Ask a Scientist: How to Disarm Disinformation

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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May 12, 2022

Ask a Scientist: Two Dozen States Can Meet 100 Percent of Electricity Demand with Renewables by 2035

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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February 10, 2022

Ask a Scientist: Assessing the Biden Administration’s Progress in Its First Year

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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January 12, 2022

Ask a Scientist: Will the Biden Nuclear Policy Wind Up Being the Same Old Same Old?

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

Electric vehicles at EVgo charging stations

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December 8, 2021

Ask a Scientist: How to Get a Charge out of Your EV

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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November 10, 2021

Ask a Scientist: While Nations Dither, US Cities, Counties and States Are Suing Fossil Fuel Companies

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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October 7, 2021

Ask a Scientist: Will Congress Finally Tackle the Climate Crisis?

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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September 15, 2021

Ask a Scientist: Tyson’s Near Monopoly is Bad for Workers, Farmers and Communities

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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August 17, 2021

Ask a Scientist: How Can We Cool Off Urban Heat Islands and Protect the Most Vulnerable?

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

Black woman holding up sign at voting rights march

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July 7, 2021

Ask a Scientist: Defending the Right to Vote

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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June 9, 2021

Ask a Scientist: As Predicted, Electric Vehicles Are Getting Cleaner

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

Xcel Energy decommissioned coal-fired power unit in Denver's Arapahoe Station.

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May 10, 2021

Ask a Scientist: What Can We Do to Help Displaced Coal Workers?

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

April 2, 2021

Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Hype Over Hypersonic Weapons

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

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January 14, 2021

Ask a Scientist: What Should the Biden Administration and Congress Do to Address the Climate Crisis?

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer