With the shift to cleaner power sources displacing workers in coal-reliant communities, one of the largest US trade unions for the utility sector hopes that President-elect Joe Biden will expand an Obama administration program to ease the economic effects of the energy transition. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Biden has set a goal to have the US power sector achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2035. Working toward that target could create a surge in renewable energy jobs but extend the years-long decline in employment for the coal mining and coal-fired power plant industries. “I think that both the up- and downside is all going to happen at the same time,” Lee Anderson, government affairs director for the Utility Workers Union of America said in […]