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OCTOBER 4, 2022

So was just about everyone’s grandfather in Gillespie, Illinois, a town that was born to power the Great Chicago & North Western railway system. But until about half a century ago, coal was king in southern Illinois. About a third of the nation’s 4,000 hazardous water bodies on the AML list are still unreclaimed.

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MARCH 21, 2022

With jobs that already carry nearly 35 times the risk of heat-related death than the average job in the United States, farmworkers in California’s Central Valley work under often-grueling conditions that are expected to worsen with continued climate change. These are exhausting, back-breaking—and too often life-threatening —jobs.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the time, the White House was focused on explaining to the American people how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act would boost jobs and lift the economy. One top finding of this Fall 2023 survey is that more than 40% of registered voters have heard nothing about the Inflation Reduction Act.

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MAY 11, 2023

That is about the same amount of water used by two-thirds of all Californians (26 million people) indoors in a year. That is about one pound of toxic nitrate per person per day that leaches into and near community aquifers that could be stopped. million acre-feet per year (576 billion gallons per year). million acre-feet per year.

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MARCH 19, 2024

used about 678 million tons of coal to generate electricity. Coal industry employment is also down, from about 50,000 when Trump took office to 45,000 today. Coal industry employment is also down, from about 50,000 when Trump took office to 45,000 today. (It The mantra now is about preserving baseload power for reliability.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

electricity to about one-fifth today. Politically, what has happened to coal jobs may be more salient. By 2012 about half of 1980 employment had already been lost, nearly all in Appalachia. In terms of coal industry jobs, economic shifts within the industry seem to account for half the decline.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

org In a letter sent earlier today, twelve major climate and labour organizations called on Prime Minister Trudeau, Natural Resources Minister Wilkinson, and all parties’ House Leaders to expedite the passage of Bill C-50, the Sustainable Jobs Act, following months of delays. Building a sustainable workforce starts now – not in 2050.”

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MAY 1, 2023

That made me start thinking about the efforts that have been made to unite climate action with the interests of workers. From the start of his administration, Biden has linked jobs and workplace issues with climate action. Most programs are four to five years and involve both on-the-job and classroom instruction.”

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APRIL 17, 2024

Key features of the Clean Economy Tracker include: Investment and Job Creation Tracking: The Clean Economy Tracker offers detailed information on investments and jobs in clean energy and clean technology manufacturing. Learn more about the Clean Economy Tracker here.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Labor Day is a good time to talk about an important topic: the impact of environmental protection on jobs. In support of his deregulation campaign, President Trump promised to “cancel every needless job-killing regulation and put a moratorium on new regulations until our economy gets back on its feet.”

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APRIL 19, 2022

A transition to renewable energy is not just one of the most consequential tools at our fingertips to act on climate, but also represents a great opportunity to increase control over our energy choices, improve the health of our communities and the planet, create jobs and wealth, and much more. But how feasible is this transition?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

According to the Economist , by 2040 about three-quarters of global sales will be EV even under conservative assumptions. The EV industry is growing rapidly, creating new jobs. BY 2031, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the EV transition will produce eight million new jobs. A third trend involves political economy.

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JUNE 7, 2022

And it had warned of 100,000 jobs at risk, meaning almost half the US solar workforce. A letter from a bipartisan group of 22 US senators had expressed their “serious concern” about the investigation, and its effect on solar developers and ratepayers. What the federal government will do. What the federal government will do.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite the United States having spewed a quarter of all the world’s cumulative global warming gases, Johnson blathered at a 2017 town hall: “What about Africa? The IRA passed without a single Republican vote, with the GOP complaining about “wasteful” federal spending. So far, the investments add up to about $100 billion.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

I know their hearts are in the right place, but I wish they had thought twice about filing this case. The lawsuit claims that EPA must do far more about climate change, but the six conservative Justices have the contrary view. No one who reads the complaint would ever take a job as a federal regulator.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How they answer that question will influence US government decisions about the future size and readiness of US nuclear forces. Analysts must consider the author’s qualifications, the intended audience and the context in which language about nuclear weapons-related terminology is communicated.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 15, 2024

Statement by Aliénor Rougeot, Program Manager, Climate and Energy It is good news for workers and communities that the Sustainable Jobs Act is one step closer to becoming law. Background: Bill C-50, the Sustainable Jobs Act, was tabled in the House of Commons in June 2023.

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APRIL 25, 2022

Wednesday is “hump day” for many working people with Monday to Friday jobs. For others with different schedules, shifts, multiple jobs, or work that spills over into their so-called off-time, Thursday is just another day. That adds up to a total of 4,764 fatalities—or about 13 workers every day. In the United States alone!

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AUGUST 24, 2023

The topic of climate change got about 4 minutes of airtime during the first half of the first presidential primary debate held this week by Fox News. That’s actually a pleasant surprise when you think about it: human-caused global warming came up before Donald Trump’s indictments. “Bringing our jobs home,” indeed.

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MARCH 13, 2023

SNAP already requires all adults to register for work, participate in job training, or work at least 30 hours a week (and has even stricter requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents). Large corporations benefit from workers’ low wages National data on workers who receive SNAP does not include information about specific employers.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Cristina Dorador , a Chilean microbiologist who studies Chile’s salares, or salt flats, reminded the audience that all minerals are located in ecosystems: when we are talking about critical minerals, we are talking about the environment. But community benefits shouldn’t end at jobs, he argued. Honorable Tomas Tortez, Jr.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although Blacks thrived in other blue collar sectors like lumber in the early Twentieth Century, they got vanishingly few jobs from oil companies. Even five years ago, black workers reportedly had fewer than 10% of industry jobs (and only 4% in oil and gas extraction ). Blacks were nearly excluded from the industry.

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MARCH 29, 2023

Yet policymakers still use the disinformation playbook to deceive and misinform the public about climate change, at the expense of our well-being and our future. The Diversion is Play 3 from UCS’s Disinformation Playbook : Manufacture uncertainty about science where little or none exists.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But an official with the Texas Council on Environmental Quality — who, in a former job, was a lobbyist for the petrochemical industry — declined NASA’s offer to use state of the art air quality monitoring equipment. The seismologist ultimately left his job because he concluded that he “couldn’t be a scientist there.”

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We asked them about their perception of staff departures, whether they perceived a lack of capacity and, if so, how that impacted their ability to fulfill their agency’s mission. Have you thought about working for the federal government? That’s largely because many universities do not promote government jobs as a lucrative career path.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

However, misinformation and coordinated disinformation about renewable energy is widespread and threatens to undermine public support for the transition. jobs ( it does not ).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Landforce administers a paid job training program which not only helps restore and maintain green community assets, it supports development of strong, capable employees for future employers. Click Here for a job description and information on how to apply. Visit the Landforce website for more information on their programs.

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JULY 25, 2022

It surveys the economic literature to find out what the data tells us about emission trading systems, the effects of pollutants, and effects of imposing tougher regulatory requirements in areas that failed to meet national air quality standards. I’ll start with what the paper tells us about environmental economics.

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Nanotech

APRIL 25, 2024

Heather manages many chemical coalitions and does a masterful job of managing issues and people. When you think about it, engaging commercial competitors to align on advocacy involving critically important regulatory, testing, and science The post Utility of Consortia Advocacy — A Conversation with Heather J.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Like its predecessors, the job of the Overshoot Commission was to say things that are true and important, but that other more politically constrained bodies are unable to say: to talk loudly about elephants in the room and naked emperors. This boiled down to two jobs. They can speak and discuss freely. C (IPCC), 2.6°C

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

Landforce is one of two Allegheny County organizations selected by EPA for funding under its fiscal year 2023 Brownfields Job Training Grant competition. The Brownfields Job Training Grant Program not only improves communities, it has the power to change lives,” said EPA Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz. Executive Director, Landforce.

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MAY 12, 2022

While that is not a replacement for national and international leadership, we are encouraged by our findings about the impact that state-level action alone can have on reducing carbon pollution.”. What job opportunities would this clean energy transition create? And what about fossil fuel-dependent workers and communities?

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MARCH 4, 2024

Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 To be clear, when I talk about extractive agriculture I am not talking about local farmers. You can check out a flyer about Nettie here. We are very concerned about cropland repurposing taking their jobs.”

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APRIL 18, 2024

The Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps has a successful track record helping young adults develop the job skills needed to succeed in today’s economy,” Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn said. It also teaches participants about public service and provides job skills to make them better employees.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether to overrule the Chevron doctrine. This job is done by congressional staffers, sometimes assisted by agency staff. That doctrine allows administrative agencies that implement statutes to resolve ambiguities in those statutes. Congressional staff. Download as PDF

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jobs for the Future and the Ares Charitable Foundation have chosen Sustainable Pittsburgh as one of ten organizations across the United States to advance to Phase 2 of the Quality Green Jobs Regional Challenge. Executive Director of Sustainable Pittsburgh.

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MARCH 7, 2024

I wouldn’t blame you if you thought nobody was buying EVs or that sales were about to plummet. California, where the market is more mature, saw annual EV sales increase 29% year over year, but fourth quarter year-over-year sales grew only about 8% ( Veloz ). They will be better.

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