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A 2018 report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission entify the regions2 that looks at the "potential decline of coal mining and coal power-plant activities" and assesses "the impact on regional jobs" as well "reviews potential actions that could be undertaken at regional
level, which could help re-use retired coal infrastructure and re-deploy personnel to new
activities or extend the life of coal power plants with lower impact to the environment, thus maintaining jobs and economic activities within the affected regions"
[Originally posted at https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC112593/kjna29292enn.pdf]
This table from January 2020 outlines the Just Transition Mechanism allocation for the European Commission pursuant to the Amended proposal for the Just Transition Fund which "will provide support to all EU Member States, while concentrating on those territories and regions where the magnitude of the climate transition is larger."
[Original posted at https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_20_66]
A 2015 report from the U.S. Center for American Progress that advocates political action to "correct the flaws in the federal coal-leasing program that create these market distortions, principally related to royalty rates that mining companies pay on the value of surface-mined coal extracted from federal land.
A June 2021 study on proposals to reform the U.S. unemployment insurance system--A joint report of the Center for American Progress, Center for Popular Democracy, Economic Policy Institute, Groundwork Collaborative, National
Employment Law Project, National Women’s Law Center, and Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
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