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On July 28th, representatives from the Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS), alongside comrades from sister organizations including the Just Transition Alliance, The Chisholm Legacy Project, and Taproot Earth, joined the picket line in Jackson, Mississippi. The delegation stood in direct solidarity with striking transit workers represented by Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1208.

The post Climate Justice Leaders Support Striking Transit Workers first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

A recent article by Sasha Abramsky in TruthOut tells how “Fired Federal Employees Are Bringing Climate Change Info Back to the People.”

The post Fired Federal Workers Want to Let You Know What the Government Won’t Tell You about Climate Change first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

A new report from the nonpartisan business group E2 found that since Donald Trump was inaugurated, 216 major clean energy generation and manufacturing projects were scrapped, closed, or downsized. That led to the loss of nearly half a million potential jobs. The projects would have generated an estimated $53 billion in wages for workers during construction and more than $31 billion annually after they began operation.

The post Trump’s Attacks on Clean Energy Cost Half-a-Million Jobs first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

An AP/NORDC poll conducted in July asked people tell whether extreme heat has impacted their lives. 90 percent answered that it had.

The post 9 in 10 Americans Say Extreme Heat Is Affecting Their Lives first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

Overall, climate protection policies create jobs and improve conditions for workers. But employers can try to take advantage of climate policies in ways that harm workers instead.

The post Climate Protection vs. Jobs? first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

Pope Leo XIV issued a welcome call to defend the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. Yet compared to his predecessor, Pope Francis, he is less clear about who exactly can mobilize against our corporate overlords.

Twenty years ago, scholars could be accused of antisemitism just for acknowledging the Israel lobby exists. Today the lobby’s influence has become an undeniable and ubiquitous issue in American politics.

PUYO, Ecuador—People fighting oil wells, mines and other threats to their homelands did not come to this Amazonian city to lobby politicians at an environmental conference hosted by governments. They built the conference themselves.  The 12th Pan-Amazonian Social Forum, known as FOSPA, brought together Indigenous leaders, Afro-descendent communities, women, youth and other environmental defenders and […]

By its own account, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is doing a fantastic job. In a March report on its performance in the last fiscal year, the agency boasted that it had concluded 2,127 civil enforcement cases, “the highest in nine years.” That number wasn’t wrong, but it was very misleading, an Inside Climate News […]

Maryland’s ratepayer protection agency is fighting on two fronts simultaneously to shield households from paying hundreds of millions more in costs related to projected power demand—much of it linked to data centers that may never get built.  In recent weeks, the Office of People’s Counsel has asked federal regulators to reject regional grid operator PJM […]

“When I look at these three women – Indigenous, riverine, and Quilombola – I also see a message about where many of the answers to the climate crisis lie: in the territories and in knowledge that generations have passed down.”

The post Monumental Rio Mural Celebrates Women Defending Amazon Rivers first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Most people decide if it’s safe to eat an old tub of yogurt in the fridge or canned tuna in the back of the cupboard by checking its sell-by date. But no label indicates that pesticides, phthalates, PFAS or other hazardous chemicals could be seeping from those containers into your food. Of more than 15,000 […]

NorCal Resist is our August 2026 Mutual Aid General Fund recipient. Learn how they track ICE, cover bail, and feed the Sacramento region.

The post Mutual Aid General Fund Recipient – Aug 2026: NorCal Resist appeared first on A Radical Guide. by Jason Bayless

As our communities grapple with deadly heat waves, smoky skies, sweeping floods, canceled harvests, and rising costs, it’s clearer than ever that the continued burning of fossil fuels is the single greatest threat facing our planet today. It’s past time to end the production of new fossil fuels, enact clear transition plans, and accelerate the […]

A new HBO documentary about Burning Man, produced with the explicit approval of the festival’s brass, elides the underpaid, overexploited workers who toil each year to make the party happen.

Lost in conversations about New York socialists’ charisma or social media prowess in recent electoral victories is something simple: boots on the ground. New York City DSA mobilized thousands of volunteers and is poised to do so again in the future.

Over the weekend, Iceland voted against resuming talks to join the European Union. At the heart of the referendum question: fish. More than a decade since talks previously collapsed, Euroskeptics won 52.8 percent of the vote, according to the National Electoral Commission.  Just over 12,700 votes separated the two camps. While the referendum—which was moved […]

Nancy Fraser has broadened her understanding of how capitalism works and why it relies on multiple forms of domination. Her theory shows us that feminist, environmental, and anti-racist struggles are all necessarily linked to anti-capitalist politics.

Putting Jared Moskowitz in charge of Middle East policy isn’t just a slap in the face to Democratic voters — it’s an empowerment of a leading Democratic supporter of Trump’s disastrous Iran war and free speech crackdown.

Dolly Parton was a poor girl from a Tennessee cabin who never forgot it, never stopped singing about it, and never treated anyone as beneath her.