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The Right’s Climate Change Shame
This article discusses The Right’s Climate Change Shame.
A cartoon popped up in my Twitter feed last week that seemed the perfect coda for the latest, congressionally mandated report on climate change. It shows a dinosaur looking up into the heavens at night, at all the twinkling […]
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Fastest Growing Jobs Are In The Renewable Energy Sector
This graphic from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the fastest growing jobs in the US. they are in the renewable energy sector.
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Report: Florida heat is already hard on outdoor workers. Climate change will raise health risks
This article discusses how Florida heat is already hard on outdoor workers. Climate change will raise health risks.
Harvesting crops or building a house in the Florida sun is grueling work, and a new report shows that it’ll only get more miserable and unsafe for workers as climate change sends temperatures […]
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Study: Reducing U.S. coal emissions could create jobs in forestry, transportation
This article discusses how reducing U.S. coal emissions could create jobs in forestry, transportation. A new study published Thursday in the journal Joule looked at how new carbon-capture technology could not only retain thousands of jobs in the coal industry, but create thousands more.
As coal is phased out to make room for […]
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5 ways climate change could alter life in SC after 2030
This article discusses 5 ways climate change could alter life in SC after 2030.
If carbon emissions are not radically cut by 2030, Charlestonians could see far stronger storms and the disappearance of shellfish habitat, according to a new broad-based review of climate change science.
The report, published this month by the […]
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Spain wants to phase out coal plants without hurting miners
This article discusses how Spain wants to phase out coal plants without hurting miners. Under its new strategy, the country is ensuring that the over 1,000 miners who stand to be affected will be able to transition into new jobs in renewables and environmental restoration.
During the lead-up to the 2016 presidential […]
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EPA is downsizing regional office staff – quietly
This article discusses how EPA is downsizing regional office staff.
EPA trimmed employees from a regional office and in other departments this year as the Trump administration continued its push to downsize the agency.
Employees in EPA’s San Francisco-based Region 9 were offered buyout and “early out” options over the summer, […]
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Report: Fighting climate change could boost the global economy by $26 trillion
This article discusses how fighting climate change could boost the global economy by $26 trillion. Concerted efforts to stop climate change by 2030 would also create 65 million new jobs and–this part is important–stop 700,000 premature deaths.
Over the next 10 to 15 years, the world will invest $90 trillion […]
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Could flooding and sea level rise cost Hampton Roads a military base?
This article discusses the potential for the military to move a naval base due to sea level rise and flooding. The loss of Virginia jobs would be devastating.
Sea level rise could put some of the region’s bases in jeopardy of closing, which would have a serious impact on the […]
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Oil Industry Plans to Keep Workers Safe—by Firing Them and Having Robots Do Their Jobs
This article discusses how the fossil fuel industry plans to ensure worker safety – by replacing workers with robots.
The oil and gas industry is finally acknowledging how dangerous employment can be for its workers after years of touting the sector as a beacon of worker safety. This sudden honesty about […]
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