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US enhances mining safety with new silica dust regulations

New protections against hazardous mining dust aim to curb rising cases of severe lung diseases among miners.

Chris Hamby reports for The New York Times.

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‘Quite a gap to close’: women ‘vastly underrepresented’ in green jobs sector

Women comprise a strikingly small portion of the clean tech workforce, but the White House has made steps to change that.

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Former coal towns get money for clean-energy factories

An Energy Department program designed to create jobs and manufacturing in communities reliant on fossil fuels is backing projects in West Virginia, Colorado and elsewhere.
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Pennsylvania Democrats seek balance between environmental policy and loyalty to labor

Democratic leaders, however, caught between the competing interests of the environmental movement and building trade unions — both traditionally strong allies of the party — didn’t share the goal of putting sweeping climate and environment legislation up for votes.
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Local leaders call for auto workers’ gains to spread to EV plants, Southern Black workers

More than 60 Black political leaders, wrote to President Biden asking him to push for higher standards in the rapidly growing electric vehicle industry.
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