by BrendanS | Feb 15, 2011 | Just Transition, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, post
Advocates for sustainability, under assault from climate deniers and drill-baby-drillers, are struggling to protect the earth from global warming, desertification, extinction of plants and animals, and other looming threats. Why should they also be concerned about...
by BrendanS | Feb 7, 2011 | Just Transition, post
You can hear the echo chamber reverberate the talking points: “¢ The Independent Petroleum Association of America complains that drilling permits and pollution are curbing job growth. “¢ The head of the National Association of Manufacturers and the...
by BrendanS | Jan 27, 2011 | Politics of Climate Change, post
How Unions Can Help Secure a Binding Global Climate Agreement in 2011 By Sean Sweeney [Editor’s Note: The international trade union movement has given little-heralded but significant support for a deal that protects the earth’s climate while providing a...
by Ming | Jan 4, 2011 | Just Transition, post
[With the defeat of US climate legislation, the stalling of international climate negotiations, and the rise of tea party climate denialism, is climate protection doomed? LNS’s discussion paper, “Climate Protection Strategy: Beyond...
by Ming | Dec 8, 2010 | Labor and Climage Action, post
In all the jargon-laden field of sustainability and climate change, some of the most common but most unnecessarily obscure terms are “Renewable Energy Standards” (RES), also known as “Renewable Electricity Standards” (RES) and...
by Ming | Nov 29, 2010 | Just Transition, post
With the collapse of climate protection legislation in Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under a mandate from the US Supreme Court, is stepping in to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. At the end of 2009 it...
