Labor and Climate News
Clean Energy Strategy Must Map Way To Climate Goal
[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 away from...
The EPA’s Clean Power Plan: How Unions and Allies Can Protect Affected Workers
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...
The EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Jobs
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is poised to issue the final text of a regulation called the Clean Power Plan (CPP) whose purpose is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) that climate scientists say are causing global warming. There is already...
A Scenario for Climate Protection and Jobs
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...