February 28, 2011 President Barack Obama recently established a Presidential Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He told the first meeting, “The biggest challenge we’re seeing right now is that unemployment is way too high.” He asked them to come up with “some concrete deliverables” to lower the 9% unemployment rate. Here is a concrete… Read More »
CLIMATE PROTECTION STRATEGY: BEYOND BUSINESS AS USUAL
January 4, 2011 Executive Summary 1. The failure of climate protection reflects the primacy of short-term competitive self-interest by nations and corporations. 2. Proposals to downplay the urgent necessity to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions for economic or political reasons only hasten climate catastrophe. 3. A real solution requires an independent global… Read More »
A LABOR GUIDE TO RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARDS
December 8, 2010 In all the jargon-laden field of sustainability and climate change, some of the most common but most unnecessarily obscure terms are “Renewable Energy Standards” (RES), also known as “Renewable Electricity Standards” (RES) and “Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS).” All are essentially the same thing — requirements that electric companies get a certain… Read More »
EPA REGULARTION OF GREEHOUSE GASSES IS GOOD FOR LABOR: FIVE REASONS WHY
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 »
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