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]…
Why This One New Thing Could Help Save the Planet from Climate Chaos The Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act (OFF Act) has a 2035 deadline for moving America to clean energy while emphasizing racial and economic justice….
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…
Fracking Waste Ban Stalls in the Senate, But Connecticut Towns Move Forward By Jennifer Siskind, Food & Water Watch The movement to ban toxic, radioactive drilling waste has spread to communities across the state. But that grassroots momentum wasn’t enough…
Fight for Your Public Lands Moves to 2018 By: Eric Hammerling — Advocates of a constitutional amendment that would ensure appropriate public input before the General Assembly could sell, swap, or giveaway state lands say they are disappointed that the…
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…
Do the Math: How Much Trump Could Raise U.S. Carbon Emissions A detailed analysis shows how much more CO2 each of Trump’s climate policy changes would send into the atmosphere By Annie Sneed, Scientific American Pres. Donald Trump has said…
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…
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…
Keep Connecticut’s Bottle Deposit Editorial Hartford Courant May 17, 2017 A bill that would eliminate the refundable 5-cent deposit on bottles and replace it with a 4-cent per bottle tax is bad policy that will hurt the environment, the consumer and…