Friend — This Labor Day, I want to take the opportunity to emphasize a historic new development in our efforts to address both the climate crisis and inequality for workers in our country.

The impacts of climate change and toxic pollution hit lower income communities and communities of color hardest, exacerbating racial and economic inequities.

That's why LCV joined the BlueGreen Alliance — a national partnership of 14 of the nation's largest labor unions and environmental organizations devoted to solving today's environmental challenges in ways that create and maintain high-quality, family-sustaining jobs and build a stronger, fairer economy.

As part of that alliance, LCV is a proud signatory to the new Solidarity for Climate Action, a bold platform that lays out a vision, principles, and policies to address climate change and inequality. The platform focuses on how we create and sustain good-paying jobs for workers in communities around the country, while fighting economic inequality and addressing the urgent climate crisis.

This is critical to our transition to a clean energy economy — the jobs we create tackling the climate crisis and protecting communities in harm's way must be good, family-sustaining jobs.

As the Solidarity for Climate Action platform says, "Americans face the dual crises of climate change and increasing economic inequality, and for far too long, we've allowed the forces driving both crises to create a wedge between the need for economic security and a living environment. We know this is a false choice — we know that we can and must have both, and we need a bold plan to address both simultaneously."

You can read more about how we are fighting as part of the BlueGreen Alliance to create a more just, sustainable economy for us all here .

Sincerely,

Gene Karpinski
President
League of Conservation Voters