Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 25, 2025
One growing conversation in the use or non-use of GenAI is the environmental implications of the technology in every step of its life cycle. The communities breathing polluted air near data centers or those experiencing increased energy costs are the ones at the frontline of the technology’s impacts and often last its benefits.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
For more than 50 years, we have pioneered new policies and ushered in new technologies to clean our air and protect our climate. Meanwhile, CARB staff is proposing several amendments that will update the program without undermining its fundamental features. The Board should adopt these proposals. But it’s never easy.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 18, 2024
These approaches create a more secure and sustainable supply chain Electrifying our transportation system has sizeable benefitswe can reduce climate-changing emissions and air pollutants that cause serious health problems. But how we get to fully electric matters.
New Scientist
JULY 22, 2025
This warming influence is even greater in populated places, where there tends to be more air pollution. Reducing aerosol pollution is a public health imperative,” says Geeta Persad at the University of Texas at Austin. This means efforts to clean up air pollution to benefit human health come with a warming effect on the climate.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 8, 2025
We are caught in the middle, struggling with our identity as a state successfully transitioning to clean technologies yet still reliant on gasoline. We only wanna have someone to call us baby (by which I mean “meet our day-to-day transportation needs while not worsening the climate crisis or air quality”).
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 10, 2025
The growth in DER technologies by type over time. Access to clean energy is critical due to the generational harm caused by air pollution from power plants which is over-concentrated in historically marginalized communities. But achieving this requires more than just technological innovation. Source: U.S.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Crucially, the funding would also go towards social science, governance, and systems research – an acknowledgment from the NASEM committee that public engagement on emerging technologies, and whether we can govern them effectively, must be an integral part of assessing whether they should move forward.
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