Curbing Climate Change While Also Putting Unemployed Oil, Gas Workers Back to Work

A TV segment on Austin, TX's KXAN news channel highlights RFF and Columbia University's report on economic stimulus through oil & gas well remediation.

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Date

Feb. 23, 2021

News Type

Media Highlight

Source

KXAN

"More than 76,000 jobs in the oil industry were lost from February to June of 2020 as a result of COVID-19 and decreasing oil demands.

A recent report by Resources for the Future and the Center on Global Energy
Policy at Columbia University examines the potential to boost US employment in the oil and gas workforce, while also reducing pollution through a federal program to plug orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells."

Topics

Industry and Fuels

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Daniel Raimi

Fellow

Daniel Raimi is a fellow and director of the Equity in the Energy Transition Initiative at RFF. He works on a range of energy policy issues with a focus on tools to enable an equitable energy transition.

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