climate crisis
AFL-CIO: Global warming a union issue because it’s a workers’ issue
April 23, 2024The nation’s largest labor federation convenes the Earth Day Conference to tackle the harmful effects of global warming on the nation’s workers.
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Organized labor is committed to building sustainable offshore wind energy
March 27, 2024Labor leaders presented a pro-worker vision for generating sustainable offshore wind energy along the Southern New England coast at a virtual press conference, on Friday, March 15.
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Fossil fuel industry’s methane emissions soared to near record high in 2023, despite international climate pledges
March 27, 2024Human activities like agriculture, oil and gas production, and the accumulation of food waste in landfills produce methane — a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
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February was ninth consecutive month of record-shattering global temperatures
March 19, 2024“Global sea ice extent (coverage) was the fourth smallest in the 46-year record, at 460,000 square miles below the 1991–2020 average."
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California must triple its rate of carbon emissions reductions to reach 2030 target, report finds
March 18, 2024Transportation emissions in California — which went up 7.4 percent from 2020 to 2021 — make up almost 40 percent of its carbon footprint.
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