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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference after the G-20 Summit on June 29, 2019 in Osaka, Japan. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

Trump’s North America trade deal is poised to worsen climate change—but Dems don’t seem to mind

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Thousands of Chicago public school teachers and their supporters march through the Loop and in front of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) headquarters on September 10, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. More than 26,000 teachers and support staff hit the picket lines this morning after the Chicago Teachers Union failed to reach an agreement with the city on compensation, benefits and job security. With about 350,000 students, the Chicago school district is the third largest in the United States. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

With the help of teachers unions, the climate strikes could be moving into phase two

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Climate change activists take part in the international Strike for Climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

8 unions have a plan for climate action — but it doesn’t mention fighting the fossil fuel industry

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Colorado is leading the way in showing how the coal jobs transition is done

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Students gather with signs for a Climate Strike rally on the campus of Columbia University, Friday March 15, 2019, in New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

How unions and climate organizers learned to work together in New York

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What people in Kentucky coal country really think about a Green New Deal

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders on "Face The Nation", both advocates for the Green New Deal, a Keynesian stimulus project comparable to President Roosevelt's New Deal albeit with an eco-friendly twist. (CBS)

Maine AFL-CIO becomes first state federation to support a Green New Deal bill

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Teachers’ strikes are rattling Washington. This hearing in the U.S. House is proof.

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

How labor finally took down Scott Walker

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