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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.

Public Health Public transit Transit infrastructure

Nat Zorach March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 0 Comments colorado, front range, pueblo, transit

COVID19 Diaries: Mobility in the Time of the Plague

Amid the current COVID19 pandemic, transit agencies face massive shortfalls if their ridership decreases. They also face logistical challenges of spending an extremely limited pot of money on enhanced cleaning protocols.