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Ever since the Biden Administration unveiled its sweeping, $2 trillion American Jobs Plan on March 31, his team’s narrative has been notable for what’s missing. A key goal of the plan is to address climate change, yet largely absent from the sales pitch are dire warnings about a warming planet. In their place are breathless visions of new American manufacturing, innovation, and clean-energy independence. In part the goal is to win vital labor support for the proposal. More broadly, the aim is to merge the long-siloed policy areas of jobs and environmental protection. Proposed investments ...

In 1979, when U.S. Rep. Cori Bush was a young girl growing up in St. Louis, a groundbreaking study showed that children “who had high lead in their teeth, but who had never been identified as having any problems with lead, had lower IQ scores, poorer language function, and poorer attention.” It was around then that the hazardous effects of lead paint entered the public consciousness. By the late 1970s, lead in drinking water and paint were among the culprits leading to high lead levels in almost “I remember talking about lead paint as a child, hearing about it on the television and s...

Published April 19, 2021 at 5:16 AM CDT File photo | Jason Rosenbaum St. Louis Public Radio U.S. Rep. Cori Bush is co-sponsoring the Green New Deal for Cities legislation that would authorize $1 trillion in funding toward environmental justice projects that align with the Green New Deal. In 1979, when U.S. Rep. Cori Bush was a young girl growing up in St. Louis, a groundbreaking study showed that children “who had high lead in their teeth, but who had never been identified as having any problems with lead, had lower IQ scores, poorer language function, and poorer attention.” It ...

Why Medicare for All Must Be Part of the Green New Deal 3 Workers evacuate from an explosion and fire at the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior, Wisconsin on April 26, 2018. Several people were injured by the explosion and fire at the oil refinery, sending thick plumes of black smoke into the sky as authorities urged residents in the area to evacuate. Photo: Jules Ameel (Getty Images) In 1991, Larry Barragan got word that the oil refinery in Long Beach, California where he was working would be closing. It was one of the scariest moments of his career. Barragan was nervous about losing his...

The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Representative Jamaal Bowman, a vocal supporter of the PRO Act Tuesday night, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act passed the House by 225–205 votes. If it passes the Senate and becomes law, it will peel back over half a century of anti-union policies, including core provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. It would override state-level right-to-work protections—the darlings of the Koch brothers machine—and create harsher penalties for employers who interfere with employee...