Ed Note: This story is part of Gambit’s “Climate of Change” series on climate change and labor in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network. For decades, communities in the Rust Belt — a region stretching from Ohio around the Great Lakes to western New York and south into West Virginia — resisted efforts to transition their economies away from polluting industries like coal mining and steel manufacturing. For a century, these industries had been the backbone not only of the region’s economy, but of the nation’s, pumping out coal and steel that helped fuel multiple wars, economic booms and technological advancements.But by the 1980s, as coalfields began to run dry and cheaper, foreign sources of steel became more available, and the…
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