November 29, 2010 With the collapse of climate protection legislation in Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under a mandate from the US Supreme Court, is stepping in to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. At the end of 2009 it issued an “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gases in the… Read More »
BACKGROUNDER ON LABOR, CLIMATE AND THE EPA
November 14, 2010 With the collapse of climate protection legislation in Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency is stepping in to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. While American labor unions have been heavily involved in the discussion of climate legislation and green jobs, they have had little chance to think… Read More »
COMING NOW TO A JOB NEAR YOU
October 15, 2010 By Lisa Hovos, Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher What will be the impact of climate change on California workers if the US and other countries around the world fail to significantly reduce green house gas emissions? In other words, what happens in a “do nothing” scenario? Climate scientists have established… Read More »
THE REAL AMISTAD STORY
October 14, 2010 Director Stephen Spielberg deserves credit for bringing to public attention what historians used to refer to dismissively as “the Amistad incident.” It is the story of a group of Africans who were captured in Sierra Leone and brought in chains to the Americas — and who revolted, captured their ship, the… Read More »
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