by BrendanS | Jul 30, 2015 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, post
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...
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...