Greening the Unions: Big Labor, Meet Big Green
Uniting America’s labor unions and environmentalists has been the dream of the Left for decades: a coalition that can overcome the threat to manufacturing job security posed by anti-carbon radicals.
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Greening the Unions: The Apollo Alliance
The current BlueGreen Alliance operates as a pair of 501(c)(4) and (c)(3)—the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation—nonprofits, a common practice among political groups. This modern group was formed from a 2011 merger…
Greening the Unions: Pushing Climate Legislation Further to the Left
the BlueGreen Alliance is gearing up for expansion under President Biden. In January 2021, it was reported that the coalition is hiring for 11 new positions, including field organizers and…
Environmentalists Deserve to Lose Their War on Natural Gas
Make no mistake, the same environmentalists who tried to dial coal and oil out of the economy are coming for natural gas next. “Green” fundamentalism won’t be satisfied until it’s…
Blame Environmentalists for High Gas Prices—and Doing Russia’s Bidding
With the war in Ukraine, Americans are rediscovering the value of cheap and abundant electricity and why past generations craved independence from hostile oil exporters. Not long ago, people knew…
Nuclear Power–Hating Left: Funding the Climate Left’s Hypocrisy
Most of the climate Left opposes carbon-free nuclear energy. The list includes big names such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Defense Fund. The…
Nuclear Power–Hating Left: Opposition to Whatever Is Working
Since 1976, the League of Women Voters has supported energy policies that “limit reliance on nuclear fission.” Yet for seven-plus decades fission reactions have been the only source of nuclear…
Nuclear Power–Hating Left: The Vast Anti-Nuclear Conspiracy
Similarly, the Sierra Club, the third of America’s three largest climate policy organization, is described by Environmental Progress as “one of the most effective anti-nuclear environmental organizations in the world.”…
Nuclear Power–Hating Left: How Safe Is Nuclear Power Really?
More than two decades after Chernobyl the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) issued a report analyzing the fatality and health effects of the disaster. It…
Nuclear Power–Hating Left: Nuclear Energy Is for the Birds
"Under the new [2016] rule, wind companies and other power providers will not face a penalty if they kill or injure up to 4,200 bald eagles, nearly four times the…