by Ming | Jun 16, 2011 | Articles, Just Transition, Politics of Climate Change
[by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate change. Would that it were so! All around the country, progressives are fighting to make our...
by BrendanS | Feb 28, 2011 | Just Transition, post
President Barack Obama recently established a Presidential Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He told the first meeting, “The biggest challenge we’re seeing right now is that unemployment is way too high.” He asked them to come up with “some...
by BrendanS | Feb 15, 2011 | Just Transition, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, post
Advocates for sustainability, under assault from climate deniers and drill-baby-drillers, are struggling to protect the earth from global warming, desertification, extinction of plants and animals, and other looming threats. Why should they also be concerned about...
by BrendanS | Feb 7, 2011 | Just Transition, post
You can hear the echo chamber reverberate the talking points: “¢ The Independent Petroleum Association of America complains that drilling permits and pollution are curbing job growth. “¢ The head of the National Association of Manufacturers and the...
by Ming | Jan 4, 2011 | Just Transition, post
[With the defeat of US climate legislation, the stalling of international climate negotiations, and the rise of tea party climate denialism, is climate protection doomed? LNS’s discussion paper, “Climate Protection Strategy: Beyond...
by Ming | Nov 29, 2010 | Just Transition, post
With the collapse of climate protection legislation in Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under a mandate from the US Supreme Court, is stepping in to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. At the end of 2009 it...
