Standing Rock Solid with the Frackers: Are the Trades Putting Labor’s Head in the Gas Oven?
Sean Sweeney, TUED & New Labor Forum (Updated October 14, 2016) Note: This article first appeared in New Labor Forum. It has been updated to reflect the rising level of union opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) If anyone [...]
Contested Futures: U.S. Labor after Keystone XL
by Sean Sweeney[1] Originally published in New Labor Forum. Download PDF The extraordinary story of the political battle over the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline that began in the summer of 2011 came to an end when President Obama finally rejected the [...]
Facing up to the Failure of Carbon Markets – an Introduction to TUED Working Paper 6 – Carbon Markets After Paris: Trading in Trouble
TUED Working Paper 6 Carbon Markets After Paris: Trading in Trouble Sean Sweeney, Coordinator of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and the "intended nationally determined contributions" submitted to the UNFCCC enshrines carbon markets and emissions [...]
TUED Working Paper Urges Unions to Re-think Carbon Capture and Storage
The Hard Facts About Coal - Unions and CCS Coal use has grown dramatically in the past 25 years and is today responsible for 44% of the world's annual CO2 emissions. It also has a dramatic impact on health and [...]
Third Memorandum or Grexit: What are the implications for the Future of Greece’s Energy System?
Sean Sweeney, Ph.D. Coordinator, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, Murphy Institute, City University of New York Presentation, July 18, 2015, Democracy Rising conference, Athens, Greece Third-Memorandum-or-Grexit-word document (full presentation) It is understandable that this conference, Democracy Rising, should be deeply engaged [...]