by Ming | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor-Environmental Cooperation
[By Jeremy Brecher and Todd Vachon] Union workers attacking environmentalists—it has become a trope of our time. But what do union members actually think about the environment? In a study soon to be published in Labor Studies Journal, we report our findings on workers...
by Ming | Mar 10, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher] One in six Americans say they would personally engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse. That’s about 40 million adults. The fate of the earth may depend on them — and others...
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...
by BrendanS | Sep 11, 2015 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, post
[States are becoming increasingly important battlegrounds for climate protection. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan looks to states to design their own plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But to do so most states will have to reorient their energy policies...
