by BrendanS | Jul 6, 2016 | Articles, Just Transition, LNS News, Uncategorized
An Analysis of Language, Strategies, and Projects A JOINT PROJECT OF: Labor Network for Sustainability 11 Pine Avenue Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 info@labor4sustainability.org website: www.labor4sustainability.org Strategic Practice: Grassroots Policy Project 1515...
by ctruecolors | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher] In a small church in the Albany, NY’s low-income, predominantly African-American South End, forty people were gathered for a community meeting. They were organizing a protest against trains carrying potentially explosive oil – dubbed by the...
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 | Aug 6, 2015 | Articles, Just Transition, post
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just issued the final text of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), a regulation whose purpose is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) that climate scientists say are causing global warming. EPA and independent studies...
by BrendanS | Jun 18, 2015 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, post
How can the United States actually meet the targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that climate scientists say are necessary to forestall catastrophic climate change without catastrophic economic impacts on American workers? Green Growth: A U.S. Program for...
by BrendanS | Mar 7, 2015 | Articles, Just Transition, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post
[By Joe Uehlein] Thousands of trade unionists and seventy-five local and national unions participated in the Peoples Climate March in New York in September — a quantum leap from any previous labor participation in climate action. Climate protection has become a...
