by Sydney Ghazarian | Jun 30, 2023 | Articles
The Gulf South and Appalachia have increasingly been the targets of environmental destruction by fossil fuel and other toxic industrial infrastructure – and the location of significant campaigns against that destruction. Over the past year-and-a-half the climate...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jun 30, 2023 | Articles
As key states like Illinois, New York, and California start reducing their production and use of coal, oil, and gas, what will happen to the workers who produce, transport, and burn those fossil fuels? A new by Commentary Jeremy Brecher, LNS co-founder and senior...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jun 30, 2023 | Articles
A district court in Montana is deciding a case brought by 16 youth plaintiffs who are arguing that, by enacting pro fossil-fuel policies, state officials have violated their constitutional rights to a healthy environment. The trial has featured testimony of experts...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jun 30, 2023 | Articles
A labor-climate movement is developing not only in the US but worldwide. An on-line forum in June brought together labor activists from different countries to explore the global labor movement’s response to climate change. Speakers included: South Africa: Ferron...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jun 30, 2023 | Articles
Gail Francis is the Strategic Director of RE-AMP, a network of 130 organizations with the shared goal of equitably eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from the Midwest. Prior to coming to RE-AMP, she founded the Labor in the New Energy Economy program at the Center...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jun 1, 2023 | Articles
The New York State legislature has just passed the Build Public Renewables Act with support of unions representing a million New York workers. The Act authorizes the New York Power Authority – the largest state-owned power company in the US –to start investing...
