From Kenya to Sweden, from Britain to China, countries have made progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Green New Deal
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Biggest Threat to Financial Stability Is the Climate
A new paper makes the case that financial regulators are ignoring the significant risks from a warming planet and even from efforts to green the economy.
Posted inWorking in America
How Workers Can Demand Climate Justice
A Bargaining for the Common Good approach to the climate crisis
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Climate Change and the Democrats
If they have the smarts, Democrats can prevent a schism in the progressive coalition, and turn the Green New Deal into a jobs machine for workers displaced from the carbon economy.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Inslee Difference
The Washington governor’s focus on the climate crisis is prodding his fellow presidential candidates to develop their own Green New Deals.
Posted inWorking in America
A Conversation with Sherrod Brown
The senator from Ohio on the Green New Deal, trade, and how to beat Trump in 2020
Posted inWorking in America
Labor Champions a New Deal—with a Clean Environment and Good Jobs
And a trade policy that doesn’t reward offshoring factories to nations that don’t curtail pollution
Posted inWorking in America
Labor Unions Must Lead a Just Transition from Fossil Fuels to Clean Energy
Some labor leaders have already scorched proposals like the Green New Deal even as affected sectors continue to lose jobs.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Democratic Party Divide Is About Theories of Political Power
Dianne Feinstein’s dust-up with activists over the Green New Deal revealed that progressives are unwilling to tolerate a political system that they feel threatens planetary survival.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Want a Green New Deal? Then Challenge Global Capitalism
As climate change accelerates, communities of color suffer while corporations continue to rake in profits and the wealthy flee to safer locales.