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Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Biden and Vice President Harris invited 10 labor leaders into the Oval Office in mid-February. Biden has pledged to be the most labor-friendly president ever. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images In mid-February — barely a month into his term — President Biden gathered 10 union leaders in the Oval Office. The meeting lasted two hours. "Every once in a while ...

  / President Biden and Vice President Harris invited 10 labor leaders into the Oval Office in mid-February. Biden has pledged to be the most labor-friendly president ever. // AFP via Getty Images, Saul Loeb In mid-February — barely a month into his term — President Biden gathered 10 union leaders in the Oval Office. The meeting lasted two hours. "Every once in a while as president you get to invite close friends into the Oval," Biden said, laughing. He added: "These are the folks t...

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Many fail to realize that creating change can be easier and faster when you look a little closer to home. Boston Women’s March, 2017. (Carly Hagins / Flickr) Like most Americans, my upbringing did not prepare me for advocacy work. As a child in Fall River, Massachusetts—a working class, post-Industrial mill city—the term “lobbying” had no use in my vocabulary and simply sounded lofty and inaccessible. I pictured members of Congress, miles away from Massachusetts, making decisions on b...

Today, Feb. 4, is the birthday of Rosa Parks, whose act of resistance in refusing to give up her seat on the bus sparked the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956. This Feb. 4, we plan to join the Labor Network for Sustainability on Transit Equity Day as they connect Rosa Parks’ act of nonviolent resistance to the rights of all people to high-quality public transportation run on clean energy. You should, too. “Urban transit systems in most American cities have become a genuine civil rig...

Kassie Siegel, Center for Biological Diversity, kassie [at] biologicaldiversity.org Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, dallas [at] ienearth.org Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability, joe [at] labor4sustability.org Biden Urged By Hundreds of Groups to Sign Climate Emergency Executive Order WASHINGTON — More than 380 groups today called on President-elect Joe Biden to sign an executive order to confront the climate emergency with the full power of the executive branch a...

Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us 380 different organizations have all endorsed a draft plan for the United States to address climate change. That draft has been sent to President-elect Joe Biden. The first step, according to the plan, is to declare a National Climate Emergency. “Our house is ablaze with a fire fanned by Trump for four years,” said Kassie Siegel, dir...

Oil Change International FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Randi Spivak, Center for Biological Diversity, rspivak [at] biologicaldiversity.org Over 500 Groups Urge Biden to Order Fossil Fuel Leasing Ban Proposed Executive Order Could Be Implemented Immediately by New Interior Secretary WASHINGTON, DC — Over 500 climate, conservation, Indigenous, religious and business groups today sent President-elect Joe Biden text for a proposed executive order to ban new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on federal ...

For Immediate Release, December 16, 2020 Contact: Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, (507) 412-7609, dallas@ienearth.org Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability, (202) 256-7848, joe@labor4sustainability.org Biden Urged to Sign Climate Emergency Executive Order WASHINGTON— More than 380 groups today called on President-elect Joe Biden to sign an executive order to confront the climate emergency with the full power of the executive branch as soon ...

For Immediate Release, December 15, 2020 Contact: 500 Groups Urge Biden to Order Fossil Fuel Leasing Ban Proposed Executive Order Could Be Implemented Immediately by New Interior Secretary WASHINGTON— Hundreds of conservation, Native American, religious and business groups today sent President-elect Joe Biden text for a proposed executive order to ban new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on federal public lands and waters. Biden promised during the campaign that he ...