JHF Hammerling

As refineries close, California urgently needs a real just transition strategy that works for workers and communities. Our research shows a path forward... check out my op-ed with Virginia Parks in the SF Chronicle today!

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States can still build from Biden’s wins on clean energy and jobs - UC Berkeley Labor Center States can act to preserve and advance President Biden’s most important accomplishment: a set of policies aimed at growing jobs in strategic clean energy sectors across the U.S. while supporting fair ...

What can states do to protect the climate and promote good, green jobs? A lot.
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States can still build from Biden’s wins on clean energy and jobs - UC Berkeley Labor Center States can act to preserve and advance President Biden’s most important accomplishment: a set of policies aimed at growing jobs in strategic clean energy sectors across the U.S. while supporting fair ...

Jobs and climate are often presented as competing priorities, but BIL/IRA showed us how we can take on both simultaneously. A good jobs + climate agenda is one that can unite a broad working-class political coalition around some of our toughest challenges.

laborcenter.berkeley.edu/states-can-s...

The latest roundup of DEI cuts across the country From liberal arts colleges to massive public flagships, institutions of all kinds are moving to comply with changing federal expectations.

and i’d like our institutional leaders to grow a fucking spine and not capitulate at the first threat. we must refuse to deny the reality that climate change and social inequality exist, or to deny the importance of our own work, even if it comes at a cost.

www.highereddive.com/news/roundup...

i’d like to see democrats and big donors offer a plan for emergency stopgap funding for institutions and key programs that will be affected by politically-motivated federal cuts, so the essential work we know is needed can continue until we can rebuild our federal government

🌍🤝 The BlueGreen Alliance teamed up with refinery worker unions and environmental justice groups to craft 31 bold policy recommendations for community-based refinery transitions in Contra Costa, CA. 📄✨ Read more here: www.bluegreenalliance.org/resources/re...

Refining Transition: A Just Transition Economic Development Framework For Contra Costa County, California - UC Berkeley Labor Center In this report, we discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Contra Costa as it prepares for the cascading effects of an energy transition that is already unfolding. We propose a just transition...

Workers and communities want a just transition off fossil fuels. But how do we get there? Read our new report Refining Transition for a framework on how the Bay Area’s Contra Costa County could do it.

laborcenter.berkeley.edu/refining-tra...

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Human in Bear Suit Was Used to Defraud Insurance Companies, Officials Say Footage of a bear rifling through luxury cars was submitted to insurance companies, which paid out $140,000. But something seemed off.

really just pissed i didn’t think of this first. way to blow it for the rest of us, guys www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/u...