Climate and Environment
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Standing Rock-Solid with the Frackers
This post was originally featured at New Labor Forum. By Sean Sweeney If anyone were looking for further evidence that the AFL-CIO remains unprepared to accept the science of climate change, and unwilling to join with the effort being made by all of the major labor federations of the world to address the crisis, the…
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New TUED Report: Pollution and Warming Are Fueling a Global Health Emergency
A new TUED Working Paper draws attention to the alarming implications for human health caused by pollution and by climate change, both of which are being made worse by the growing use of coal, oil, and gas. Authored by Svati Shah and Sean Sweeney, An Illness to One is the Concern of All presents the main findings…
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Nobody Leave Mid-Hudson Releases Just Utilities Report
A little over a year ago, this blog published an interview with members of Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson — a Poughkeepsie based nonprofit that has been organizing low-income communities in the fight for affordable utilities. Several weeks ago, Nobody Leave Mid-Hudson published a fantastic report called “Just Utilities: Organizing for Solutions to the Housing Energy Crisis.” The report draws on the experiences of…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: June 13th, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. As of this writing, the the Presidential Primary season is in effect over; we know that Hillary Clinton will be…
