Against the wind: despite Trump’s attacks, unions are fighting for good US clean energy jobs

Unions are building the offshore wind farms the administration keeps threatening to kill — somebody's paycheck rides on who wins that fight.

Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a growing labor movement has addressed the climate crisis and economic inequality Ryan McElroen had spent years repairing the New York City subway underground when he got the opportunity to work in the middle of the ocean. “I had no views other than the darkness at work,” he said. “Then I went polar opposite.” Continue reading...

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