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...
by BrendanS | Aug 28, 2014 | Articles, Just Transition
by Joe Uehlein; cross-posted with Common Dreams September 2014 On Labor Day 1940, American workers faced the aftermath of the Great Depression, with mass unemployment persisting and a divided labor movement facing a renewed counterattack from corporate America. They...
by Ming | Aug 3, 2014 | Just Transition, LNS News, Reports
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by BrendanS | Jun 12, 2014 | Just Transition, Reports
Americans need a good chemical industry. We need a chemical industry that provides safe, well-paid, secure jobs for its workers. That protects the health and safety of the workers and communities it affects. That provides the rest of us safe materials that minimize...
