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In the Dakota Access Pipeline Fight, the AFL-CIO is not the Enemy  
Last week, the AFL-CIO came out in support of the Dakota Access Pipeline. For many climate advocates, such as myself, the news was disheartening. The Dakota Access Pipeline will poison water supplies, destroy priceless heritage sites, and lead us farther away from the transition to a low-carbon economy. Here on Huffington Post, a headline read, "AFL-CIO To Planet Earth: Drop Dead." But, this is a red herring. The enemy is not the AFL-CIO. The enemy is not those advocates rightfully trying to stop the pipeline from being built at Standing Rock. Instead, these two seemingly at odds interests have a common enemy: the fossil fuel industry, which puts profits over workers and is the worst contributor to climate change.

It's no surprise that the fossil fuel industry is hostile to any attempt to transition to a low-carbon economy. For decades, the industry led a targeted, well-financed campaign to deceive the public on climate change. Evidence shows that the world's largest fossil fuel companies knew of the dangers of climate change for over 20 years and continued to spend tens of millions of dollars on their deception campaign. The industry secretly funded "independent" scientists, created front groups, and even forged letters from nonprofit organizations, desperate to prevent the transition to a low-carbon economy.

But, the fossil fuel industry is also no friend to workers. As just one example, Peabody Energy, the largest private sector coal company in the world, shifted millions of dollars in health care liabilities to a subsidiary, Patriot Coal, that then filed for bankruptcy and sought to, "limit or discharge its pension and health obligations to 22,000 retired miners and their spouses." By shifting the health care costs to a subsidiary that then filed for bankruptcy, Peabody Energy increased its profits at the expense of coal miners' health. Health benefits for retired miners is particularly essential considering black lung disease is at its highest levels in 40 years, indicating that miners now are being exposed to ever more toxic working conditions. Despite what it may say, environmental regulations or the need to shift away from coal doesn't seem to be hurting the company. Peabody Energy's revenues for 2015 topped $5.1 billion.

In addition, fossil fuel companies are active members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries, and Peabody Energy are corporate board members of ALEC. ALEC promotes climate denial and has actively worked to repeal renewable energy standards at the state level, taking issue with their overwhelming success in increasing renewable energy use. ALEC has also successfully pushed Right to Work legislation at the state level since 1995. Right to Work laws undermine unions and Right to Work states have lower wages and benefits.

Without a drastic shift away from fossil fuels, we will see the worst impacts of climate change. At the same time, if you can't feed your family, it's difficult to focus on anything apart from that. Base pay for workers on the Dakota Access pipeline can start at $37 an hour plus benefits, overtime, and per diem pay. The median pay for solar PV installers is $18.19 an hour.

But, it doesn't have to be this way. Research has shown that solar jobs can be good jobs. In California, utility-scale solar construction built by union members paid $39 per hour plus health and pension benefits. In addition to providing good jobs, all unionized employers participated in state-approved apprenticeship programs to train a new generation of solar workers. The mean hourly wage for an apprentice electrician is almost $24 an hour plus benefits and increases with skill acquisition as they move through their apprenticeship program.

Pitting unions against climate change advocates only benefits the fossil fuel industry. Investing in climate jobs that pay family sustaining wages and meaningfully decrease carbon emissions makes our economy stronger and saves us from the worst impacts of climate change. Labor and environmentalists must work together and not be driven apart by fossil fuel greed. We are stronger together.

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J. Mijin Cha: In the Dakota Access Pipeline Fight, the AFL-CIO is not the Enemy  
Last week, the AFL-CIO came out in support of the Dakota Access Pipeline. For many climate advocates, such as myself, the news was disheartening. The ...

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Anti-Immigrant Group Says Bears Wouldn't Want Immigrants Either  
An anti-immigration group says that if bears in the United States could talk, they would be fierce opponents of immigration.
The Federation for Americ...

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Abstract Expressionism review crammed in a room with the big men of US art  

Royal Academy of Arts, London
It is packed with thrilling works by Pollock, Rothko and the rest, but this major exhibition is also overloaded and erratic with little space for female artists

There are beautiful, marvellous and terrifying things in the Royal Academy's much-trumpeted survey of Abstract Expressionism. What more could one ask in a show including the explosive and tender Jackson Pollock; De Kooning swerving and jumbling and dismembering his frightening figures of women; Rothko's tangy brightness and trembling, tremulous darkness; Barnett Newman's zips and planes and intervals; Guston's dirty abstract impressionism in which figures wait to be unleashed. Franz Kline's angled black and white incidents; Arshile Gorky's quietly writhing accretions: they are all here. I wanted to be blown away, and to reconnect with a kind of painting that once had me in its thrall, and whose traces and impulses continue to be felt into the 21st century. I wanted to see it in some new and instructive way, but I didn't.

From Gorky's querulous biomorphs to one of Rothko's very late grey and black images of emptiness and closure, I struggled. Overloaded, frequently puzzling and erratic, this is an exhibition whose pleasures and there are many come at a price. For all its key works, and also because of them, it often flattens out signal achievements, with deadening juxtapositions and clunky sightlines. While the biggest names get rooms to themselves, others fight it out in thematic displays that deaden individual works and achievements.

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What united the artists was ambition, turned into the method-actor romanticism of cold lofts, bad coffee and fights

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Creatures of the order Strigiformes, 2016. Art print of an illustration by Kelsey Oseid. This poster chronicles 31 amazing owls from the taxonomic order Strigiformes. Print measures 12x18 inches. Printed in Minneapolis on acid free 80# Mohawk Superfine cover. Packaged in a protective compostable cellophane sleeve, and sent to you in a bendproof oversize envelope, reinforced with corrugated cardboard.  
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