by Jeremy Brecher | Mar 3, 2022 | Articles
By: Oren Kadosh, LNS Legal and Policy Researcher The federal rollout of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA” – colloquially known as the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”) is now beginning. The IIJA set overall requirements that any construction jobs...
by Jeremy Brecher | Mar 3, 2022 | Articles
By Jeremy Brecher The Labor Network for Sustainability joined more than 1,100 organizations in a letter asking President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency and to use his executive authority to fight climate change. It called for Biden to keep his promise that ...
by Jeremy Brecher | Mar 3, 2022 | Articles
In November 2022 the Biden Administration prepared to sell oil and gas permits for 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico – the largest such sale in US history. Now a federal court has halted the sale because of the failure to adequately assess the impact on climate...
by Jeremy Brecher | Mar 3, 2022 | Articles
By Jeremy Brecher Climate-safe energy is being produced locally all over the country in ways that also produce jobs and increase racial, social, and economic justice – fulfilling the basic principles of the Green New Deal. Jeremy Brecher’s new Commentary “Climate-Safe...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Mar 3, 2022 | Articles
By Sydney Ghazarian, LNS Organizer and Communications Associate Labor Network for Sustainability is proud to be among 45 climate and environmental justice groups calling on the green building community to stop partnering with Kingspan, an international building...
by Joe Uehlein | Mar 3, 2022 | Articles
By Joe Uehlein, LNS President and member of American Federation of Musicians since 1966 “Over the course of 20 albums and three decades I’ve walked the tightrope of rock and race.” Tom Morello has also walked the tightrope of rock and politics, rock and labor, and now...