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Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Is Possible. These State-Level Plans Show How. Windmills produce renewable energy in the Mojave Desert outside of Lancaster, California. Visions of America / Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images By When it comes to climate change, state governments across the United States have been way ahead of the federal government in providing leadership toward reducing carbon pollution and building a clean energy economy. For example, when Trump announced in 2017 his intention to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, the governors of California, Washing...

President Biden, according to Swedish teen environmental protester Greta Thunberg, isn't doing enough to "treat the climate crisis like a crisis," accusing him of being "not nearly enough in step with the science" on the subject.

The federal minimum wage hasn’t increased in over a decade. After a brief but failed attempt by the Biden administration to raise it to $15 an hour, it will most likely remain at the current $7.25 for an indefinite time to come. This is a shame, for the economic benefits of wage hikes are beyond dispute, as many studies have shown, including those authored by Robert Pollin, distinguished professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Pollin is co-author of The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy (1998) and ...

The president has vowed to make the U.S. electricity sector pollution-free by 2035. But some of his policies are facing resistance.

The Manchin Conundrum Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 5, 2020. If anyone should support building back better, it’s Joe Manchin III. West Virginia’s economy is hurting; and even though Manchin defends coal, he has to know that coal jobs are not coming back. Development of West Virginia has to be centered around something else, or the state will continue to lag. Due to the combination of a long-term depressed economy plus the COVID recession, fully 31 percent of West Virginia’s workforce has filed for unemployment since the pa...