January 18, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Labor Network For Sustainability is deeply encouraged by the Obama Administration’s decision to oppose the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. According to LNS Executive Director Joe Uehlein, “It’s an encouraging development. Oil companies and other pipeline advocates argued that the nation must choose between jobs… Read More »
CLIMATE CHANGE: A DAGGER POINTED AT YOUR JOB?
September 26, 2011 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher Climate change has arrived in America. What will it mean for your job? Climate change affecting my job? Many people have never even considered the possibility. They have been misled by false assurances like the testimony of Douglas W. Elmendorf, the director of the… Read More »
THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE: TOO DIRTY FOR GEORGE W. BUSH?
September 11, 2011 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher The Keystone XL pipeline, recently approved by the US State Department and awaiting President Obama’s declaration that it is in the “national interest,” will carry oil that is too dirty for the US government to buy — under legislation signed by George W. Bush!… Read More »
PIPELINE TO CLIMATE DISASTER: THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE AND LABOR
June 29, 2011 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher More than two million American construction workers — nearly one in five — are currently unemployed. Factories that produce building materials are operating at only half their capacity. So when a private company proposes a project that it claims will spur the creation of 118,000 new… Read More »
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