Energy and Environment

Environmentalists, workers seek common ground

By Washington Examiner

Published October 20, 2013 4:00am ET

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Environmentalists, workers seek common ground — "Global warming is here, and we can work and get it fixed together," United Steel Workers president Leo Gerard said at the Power Shift conference in Pittsburgh. (AP File) | Keith Srakocic

PITTSBURGH — The nation’s largest labor unions are ready and willing to help fight global warming, but are cautioning environmentalists that workers need new clean-energy jobs before existing industries are shut down.

The four-day Power Shift conference in Pittsburgh is training young people to stop coal mining, fracking for oil and gas, and nuclear power, but organizers also want workers to join the battle against climate change.

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