by Jeremy Brecher | Oct 29, 2022 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder In the 2007 Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA, the state of Massachusetts successfully sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to require it to address greenhouse gas [GHG] pollution under the...
by Jeremy Brecher | Aug 30, 2022 | Strike!
Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act reveals the power that can arise when the movements for worker protection, climate protection, and justice protection join forces. The fossil fuel industry, the Republican Party, conservative fossil-fuel Democrats, and right-wing...
by Jeremy Brecher | Jul 19, 2022 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder People are acting at the local and state level to create jobs, reduce greenhouse gas pollution, and equalize transportation by expanding and electrifying public transit, electrifying cars and trucks, and...
by Jeremy Brecher | Jun 2, 2022 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder This second of two commentaries on “Unions Making a Green New Deal from Below” portrays what it looks like when unions in a town decide to create a local Green New Deal or when unions in a state decide to...
by Jeremy Brecher | May 20, 2022 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder While Washington struggles over job and climate programs, unions around the country are making their own climate-protecting, justice-promoting jobs programs. While unions have been divided on the Green New...
by Jeremy Brecher | Mar 23, 2022 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder Protecting the climate requires rapidly reducing the extraction of fossil fuels. That’s a crucial part of the Green New Deal. While the federal government has done little so far to reduce fossil fuel...
