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Editorial: Don’t believe the naysayers. We can electrify the economy without leaving workers behind

US President Joe Biden stands on the GMC Hummer EV production line as he tours the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant with General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, and United Auto Workers President Ray Curry in Detroit, Michigan on Nov. 17, 2021.

The U.S. economy is in the early stages of an once-in-a-lifetime shift from an economy powered by fossil fuels. To prevent catastrophic climate change we have to switch quickly to electric vehicles and appliances fueled by renewable energy.

But it shouldn’t come at the expense of good-paying jobs — and it doesn’t have to.

Now that the electrification revolution is solidly underway — with and — bad-faith actors are trying

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