climate crisis
AFL-CIO: El calentamiento global es una cuestión sindical porque es una cuestión de trabajadores
April 23, 2024WASHINGTON – La historia actual del calentamiento global está plagada de medios de vida devastados, ciudades devastadas y vidas perdidas. Narra una situación trágica para todos los que se encuentran en su camino, y es una...
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AFL-CIO: Global warming a union issue because it’s a workers’ issue
April 23, 2024The nation’s largest labor federation convenes the Earth Day Conference to tackle the harmful effects of global warming on the nation’s workers.
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Organized labor is committed to building sustainable offshore wind energy
March 27, 2024Labor leaders presented a pro-worker vision for generating sustainable offshore wind energy along the Southern New England coast at a virtual press conference, on Friday, March 15.
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Fossil fuel industry’s methane emissions soared to near record high in 2023, despite international climate pledges
March 27, 2024Human activities like agriculture, oil and gas production, and the accumulation of food waste in landfills produce methane — a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
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February was ninth consecutive month of record-shattering global temperatures
March 19, 2024“Global sea ice extent (coverage) was the fourth smallest in the 46-year record, at 460,000 square miles below the 1991–2020 average."
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