Demand and government funding for renewables, electric-vehicle batteries, and other clean energy technologies are surging. But companies driving the energy transition are running into a new impediment ...

An estimated 40,000 children work in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the source of over half of the world’s supply. In Madagascar, an estimated 10,000 children mine for mica.

Climate Jobs Rhode Island, The Worker Institute at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and other organizations have collaborated to address how the state's climate goals and the labor ...

The national unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent in August 2024 and job growth is predicted to have increased, putting off fears of a recession. Fears were stoked in July by a nearly three-year high ...

2023 was marked by symbiosis between the labor and climate movements. Workers across industries and geographies loudly declared that a world in which their safety and well-being are disregarded is ...

A leading environmental lawmaker has proposed a bill that would create a state fund to support and retrain thousands of oil industry workers as California tries to phase out fossil fuel production.

Labor Secretary Tom Perez called presidential transition questions sent to government agencies like the Energy department, seeking to identify employees who worked on climate change, against the law. ...

Mehrens, like most of Trump’s appointees, is transparent about his far-right conservative views. He once accused the Obama administration of making the shaming of employers one if its priorities.

This past May, Colorado’s Democratic governor Jared Polis signed a series of new environmental bills into law, with the enthusiastic backing of the state’s labor movement. Legislation ranged from ...

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] Lee Okwon, the 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, said on the 3rd, "With the confirmation of the 2030 Nationally Determined ...