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Getting Hot in Here: California regulators passed rules Thursday to protect workers from rising indoor temperatures — and not a moment too soon.

Speaking of climate change: At the exact same time, a coalition of labor groups gathered to urge lawmakers for more support as climate change affects their jobs and the state reduces its dependency on fossil fuels. Unions representing workers in the utility, healthcare, farming, oil industries and more joined Democratic Sens. Lena Gonzalez of Long Beach and Sen. María Elena Durazo of Los Angeles as they promoted their bills.

Among other things, the proposed bills would set aside federal funding to create climate-related job training programs. Los Angeles Democratic Senator Elena Durazo says her bill, SB 1375 would make the kind of investments that will be needed.

Rogers is a vice president at United Steelworkers Local 675, whose thousands of members include Rogers and his colleagues at the Marathon oil refinery near the Los Angeles port. Local 675 is one of more than a dozen labor unions launching a new political coalition Tuesday that will lobby California to help fossil fuel workers transition to clean energy jobs.

Just days after the latest oil spill off the Huntington Beach coast, Gov. Gavin Newsom came to Orange County. In response to renewed calls to ban offshore drilling after about 25,000 gallons of crude oil poured into the Pacific Ocean, the governor commented, “Banning...

(BCN) – As California’s economy reopens, numerous labor union representatives at a news conference Thursday morning demanded a safe and equitable transition to the green economy for workers. Union members made their demands virtually at the conference, also sharing...

The dominant narrative about labor unions and climate change is that fossil fuel workers are a major roadblock to action. There’s good reason for that reputation. In California, building trades unions have fought against limiting oil and gas extraction and...