July 27, 2015 By Jeremy Brecher EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The overall effect of the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan will be to increase total jobs by about 360,000 through 2020. The CPP will continue to increase jobs through 2030. The CPP represents only a small proportion of the jobs that could be created by climate protection… Read More »
A U.S. PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXPANDING JOB OPPORTUNITIES: A REVIEW OF A PROPOSAL BY ROBERT POLLIN, HEIDI GARRETT-PELTIER, JAMES HEINTZ AND BRACKEN HENDRICKS
June 15, 2015 By Jeremy Brecher Few have come up with a proposal to reduce greenhouse emissions adequately without a reduction in economic growth, which would mean lost jobs. A proposal by Robert Pollin and colleagues, published by the Center for American Progress, is among the more ambitious. Historian and climate author Jeremy Brecher analyzes… Read More »
REVERSING CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT WILL IT TAKE?
June 12, 2015 By Jeremy Brecher; Cross-Posted with New Labor Forum On the weekend of September 21, 2014, people in 162 countries joined 2,646 events to demand global reductions in the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are generating climate catastrophe. An estimated forty thousand marched in London; thirty thousand in Melbourne; and twenty-five thousand in… Read More »
HOW CLIMATE PROTECTION HAS BECOME TODAY’S LABOR SOLIDARITY
May 15, 2015 By Jeremy Brecher Originally Printed in The Nation UNIONS-LED ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE HAS PROLIFERATED ACROSS THE COUNTRY Under banners proclaiming “Healthy Planet & Good Jobs,” thousands of trade unionists from 75 local and national unions, highly visible in their red, blue, green, and white union uniforms, joined the People’s Climate March… Read More »
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