Climate and Environment
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Sean Sweeney Talks Paris, Climate on City Watch
Last week, Murphy Professor Sean Sweeney appeared on City Watch to talk with Mark Dunlea about the upcoming climate summit in Paris, and the fight against “not letting science get in the way of business as usual.” The two discuss the climate justice movement, mobilizations and global emissions. Listen below. [soundcloud url=”https://soundcloud.com/murphy-institute/sean-sweeney-climate-paris” params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”120″…
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Unprecedented? Unions and Community Unite to Halt Plans to Build Coal Export Terminal in Oakland, California
By Elena Mora for Trade Unions for Energy Democracy A short but well-organized campaign to stop plans to build a coal export terminal in the Oakland Port resulted in a packed Oakland City Council meeting on September 21, and a vote requiring a public health impact study to guide the Council’s action, up to and…
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Photos from Trade Union Climate Summit
On June 29th, the International Program for Labor, Climate and Environment, in partnership with 32BJ, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, and Rosa Luxemburg Siftung – New York, hosted a one-day climate summit. The summit brought together unions from the U.S. and 12 other countries for a day of discussion on the Paris talks and related actions;…
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Greece Today: Sean Sweeney on the Future of Greece’s Energy System
Murphy Institute Professor Sean Sweeney just returned from Athens, where he delivered a presentation entitled Third Memorandum or Grexit: What are the implications for the Future of Greece’s Energy System? at the Democracy Rising conference. In his talk, Sweeney explained: …[E]nergy will be at the heart of the struggles in Greece in the years ahead,…
