by BrendanS | Jan 20, 2016 | Articles, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher] As nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris approved the UN Climate Change Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a statement that broke new ground on climate. While the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto climate agreement and never supported the failed Copenhagen...
by BrendanS | Jan 14, 2016 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Jeremy Brecher] In December of 2015 – the earth’s hottest year since record keeping began — 195 nations met in Paris to forge an agreement to combat global warming. The governments of the world acknowledged their individual and collective duty to protect the...
by BrendanS | Nov 19, 2015 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Local Organizing, Reports
What can one state contribute to protecting the global climate? According to a new report “Connecticut’s Clean Energy Future: Climate goals and employment benefits,” Connecticut can realize its official climate goal – reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 80 percent...
by BrendanS | Oct 29, 2015 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor-Environmental Cooperation
When the Dominion Corporation proposed, on April 1, 2013, to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point, Md., right on the Chesapeake Bay,seven hundred people demonstrated against it and many were arrested in a series of civil disobedience actions....
by BrendanS | Oct 14, 2015 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, post
Today labor and environmental organizations released a new report, The Clean Energy Future: Protecting the Climate, Creating Jobs and Saving Money, showing that the United States can reduce greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions 80 percent by 2050 — while adding...
