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labor in the climate and environmental movement

Kristin Caffray July 28, 2023July 28, 2023 0 Comments AFL-CIO, base realignment and closing commission, brookings institution, climate, climate change, climate frontline communities, coal, coal country, coal mining, colorado, Congress, environmental history, green new deal, just transition, kristin caffray, labor, labor history, labor movement, labor movement in the united states, labor network for sustainability, labor unions, logging industry, national park act of 1968, new deal, office of just transition, redwood employee protection program, rural economic development, rural poverty, Rust Belt, uaw, united mine workers, university of arizona, wade buchanan, wpa

Labor for a Just Transition

Kristin Caffray writes about how central the labor movement is to the question of a just transition to decarbonization, and how this must involve everyone ranging from urban factory workers to rural coal miners in what might become a valuable and rare point of bipartisanship.