Jack Zhou works as a social scientist at the Climate Advocacy Lab, an organization that provides training, research support, and connections to climate, clean energy, and climate justice organizers across the US.

As the Chicago Teachers Union opened contract negotiations with the city this June its “Green Schools Initiative” was a central demand.

More than 30 labor, environmental, and health groups are urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to unlock crucial disaster relief funding for extreme heat and wildfire smoke, neither of which are recognized by FEMA as major disasters.

The Labor Network for Sustainability recently co-sponsored a webinar on “Climate Justice at Work” with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.

The Green Workers Alliance is an organization of more than 1,500 renewable energy workers across the country.

The Climate Advocacy Lab recently released a Blueprint for a Multiracial, Cross-Class Movement.

Cobalt is essential for electric vehicle batteries, and much of that cobalt comes from the Congo.

Hear author and disability advocate Anna Zivarts discuss her new book, When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency.

According to a just-released study, the climate cost of the first two years of Russia-Ukraine war was greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 175 countries, including the Netherlands, Venezuela, and Kuwait.

According to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the current rate of increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is ten times faster than at any point in the last 50,000 years.

University Unions United for Free Speech recently issued this statement, endorsed by 29 academic union locals…

Rev. James Lawson died June 10 at 95. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. called Lawson “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.”

Shontaé Cannon-Buckley is the Member Relations Manager at US Climate Action Network, of which LNS is a member, and recently was the lead organizer of the 2024 Midwest Regional Meeting, at which union members and climate and environmental justice organizers shared knowledge and built power for a sustainable midwest and beyond.

LNS organizer Oren Kadosh recently provided testimony to the Board of the Cincinnati Public Schools district on green investment alternatives to education budget cuts.

California Labor for Climate Jobs held their first ever Lobby Day in Sacramento, California in early May, calling for the California Worker Climate Bill of Rights. The coalition of 15 unions represents more than one million workers across the state, organizing for a worker-led transition to a just and climate-safe economy.