Unions Float ‘Just Transition’ Costs For 2035 Net-Zero GHG Power Target

A coalition of eight energy-intensive labor unions is renewing concerns about job losses in the energy and manufacturing sectors from Democrats’ power sector climate plans, while pushing for significant federal funding for a “just transition” to handle such a shift. The coalition, known as Unions for Jobs and Environmental Progress (UJEP), warns in an October paper that Hill Democrats and the Biden campaign’s broad goal of making the electricity sector have net-zero carbon emissions by 2035 would threaten 1.4 million...