Tag: climate

Starting to get it. Labor and Climate Change.

The New AFL-CIO Stand on Climate Change What Does It Mean for Labor and for the Climate? by  Jeremy Brecher At its Quadrennial Convention in late October, the AFL-CIO unanimously adopted a resolution on “Climate Change, Energy, and Union Jobs.” [https://aflcio.org/resolutions/resolution-55-climate-change-energy-and-union-jobs]…

Did You Get Lyme Disease? One CT Did

Warm winter credited with explosion of Lyme ticks –By Ken Dixon, August 9, 2017 — CT Post —  Photo: James Gathany / Associated Press This undated photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a blacklegged tick –…

Trump EPA Can Be Beat — Trump Pruitt Lose

UNDER PRESSURE, PRUITT AND TRUMP BUCKLE, WITHDRAW ATTACKS ON SAFEGUARDS AGAINST SMOG POLLUTION Implementation of the 2015 smog pollution standard is a victory for science and public health Thursday, August 3, 2017 Contact: Brian Willis: 202.675.2386, Brian.Willis@sierraclub.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late…

Millstone Threatens — DEEP Commish Wants Transparency

DEEP Commissioner Says He Wants Millstone To Open Its Books –By PATRICK SKAHILL • JUL 26, 2017– WNPR — DEEP Commissioner Rob Klee — CHION WOLF / WNPR The future of Connecticut’s only nuclear power plant is again in question. State officials are ordering a months-long…

CT Slams Trump Climate Denial and Exit From Paris Treaty

Connecticut joins alliance committed to Paris climate accord By: MARK PAZNIOKAS | June 2, 2017, CTMIRROR.ORG Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Gina McCarthy, then the EPA administrator, charging an electric car in Hartford. Connecticut became one of the early states to…

We NEED to do better on climate change

The Risks of U.S. Inaction on Climate Change Via NYTimes To the Editor: Re “Fighting Trump on Climate, California Becomes a Global Force” (“Runaway State” series, front page, May 25): Climate change is not an us-versus-them issue; it affects all…

Keep Funding for Energy Efficiency Programs!

Advocates say cutting Connecticut energy efficiency funds a mistake By Luther Turmelle, The Middletown Press, 05/17/17 Officials with a regional energy and environmental advocacy group say diverting money from Connecticut’s energy efficiency programs to help balance the state’s budget will cause…