Energy Industry Grows Out of Its Workers

By Rainy Adkins Inside a powerplant boiler room that’s been converted to conference space, Martin Drake Power Station workers, managers, and energy traders shine a light on how public demand for a faster shift to clean energy is changing the lives of plant workers. Colorado Springs Utilities leaders have assured power plant workers whose jobs…

Uncertainty in the air: Pollution crackdowns leave workers wondering what’s next

By Auguste Voss COLORADO SPRINGS—As corporations and communities across the United States begin to heed the advice of activists and scientists stressing the importance of switching to renewables, the impacts of a changing industry affect more than just the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. People whose careers are entwined with fossil fuels are…

Changing Climate, Changing Lives

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Energy Industry Grows Out of Its Workers

Uncertainty in the air: Pollution crackdowns leave workers wondering what’s next