Environment – Page 266 – People's World

Clean energy manufacturing wins federal boost

January 8, 2010 By Joel Wendland-Liu

President Obama announced funding for tax credits to promote new job growth in the clean energy manufacturing sector.

2010 elections key to building a green, demilitarized economy

January 7, 2010 By John Bachtell

In a Dec. 4 editorial entitled, "The Welfare State and Military Power," the Wall Street Journal actually said something I agree with: you can't have both guns and butter.

Marx in Copenhagen

January 6, 2010 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

"Goodbye Africa, goodbye South Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest; it was nice knowing you." Such was George Monbiot's dismay as the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference ended.

Trucks spew deadly pollution at nation’s ports, new reports show

December 23, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

Emissions from thousands of trucks filling our ports cause hypertension, asthma, heart disease, lung cancer and a host of other respiratory illnesses among drivers and surrounding communities.

U.S. union members delivered jobs message in Copenhagen

December 22, 2009 By John Wojcik

Forty union members from the U.S. went to the climate change talks in Copenhagen to give world leaders the working class view on saving the planet.