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POPSUC Berkeley researcher: Climate change hitting poor in the U.S. hardest "California industries considered heavy emitters of greenhouse gases have a workforce that is 60 percent minority. Any climate plan that fails to transition those workers to new "green energy" jobs threatens to widen the racial economic divide. It makes no difference to climate change, i.e. emissions trading and fee programs, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a dense urban neighborhood or an unpopulated rural area. But it can make a huge difference in public health.