This is fantastic news!  Can the world be changing before our eyes?  Can people finally be getting hip to what needs to be done?  Can we actually change course and head toward a sustainable, just future for this beleaguered planet?  NAH!  Anyway, stay tuned.

I hate to be unduly optimistic, but maybe this signals a real chance to ally with unions that have been very anti-environmental.  The Teamsters and Turtles alliance fell apart as soon as the Teamsters advocated for drilling in ANWR.  Now that they've seen the light, we should ally with them, at least on this issue.  I'm sure they won't be too thrilled about reducing consumption such as driving, but we can save that issue for later.

I think the Teamsters could get behind that.  And moving long haul trucking to renewable electric freight trains, with union workers doing the railroa upgrade and manufacturing.  Operating the trains and transfer facilities.

Maybe even coal mining unions could get into converting coal to natural gas with underground biodigestion, right in the coal deposits.  Union miners retrained to operate the new process, instead of coal mining.

You can't scare america, we're sticking to the union.  The unions that brought fair wages and safe working conditions to union and non-union workers alike.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

Pleease. Who profits from keeping miners in the mines??  The owners, ownly. Coal gassification is so last century.  Miners, mines' neighbors and shareholders would profit from leaving the coal in the ground and retraining the miners to  capture energy directly from sunlight by building solar photovoltaics, at union wages.

Near your house, wife, kids, friends, installing solar panels --
or drilling in the wilds of the Arctic admiring polar bears?
The potential of local infrastructure jobs is motivating the Teamsters. Spending money at home helps our local economies. Increasing American competitiveness saves $ from going to the Middle East.