Eighty national, regional and local groups have proposed a "National Economic Transition Platform to support struggling coal mining cities and towns, some facing severe poverty, in Appalachia, the Illinois Basin, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona and elsewhere," James Bruggers reports for Inside Climate News.
The plan funded by the Just Transition Fund "stresses support for small businesses and payments for workers while transitioning to family-sustaining jobs," Bruggers writes. "It calls for reclamation and reuse of coal sites and new community infrastructure, including public health facilities and schools. Coal companies, under the plan, would be held accountable during bankruptcies."
Some of the groups aren't for the Green New Deal, "the proposed massive shift in federal spending to create jobs and hasten a transition to clean energy that's divided Republicans and Democrats," Bruggers notes, but Just Transition Fund Executive Director Heidi Binko told him they agree on principles of community-based economic development for coalfield communities and their plan could be used as a template for any legislative initiatives aimed at helping them.
The plan funded by the Just Transition Fund "stresses support for small businesses and payments for workers while transitioning to family-sustaining jobs," Bruggers writes. "It calls for reclamation and reuse of coal sites and new community infrastructure, including public health facilities and schools. Coal companies, under the plan, would be held accountable during bankruptcies."
Some of the groups aren't for the Green New Deal, "the proposed massive shift in federal spending to create jobs and hasten a transition to clean energy that's divided Republicans and Democrats," Bruggers notes, but Just Transition Fund Executive Director Heidi Binko told him they agree on principles of community-based economic development for coalfield communities and their plan could be used as a template for any legislative initiatives aimed at helping them.
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