The Blue Green Alliance supports increased investments in clean energy sources as a strategy for creating jobs, reducing global warming and moving America toward energy independence.
The unions and environmental organizations of the Blue Green Alliance are urging passage of comprehensive climate change legislation in 2009 because it is an effective way to rapidly putting people to work with millions of jobs building the clean energy economy and reducing global warming emissions.
The jobs created in the clean energy economy should be both green jobs and good jobs that will support families, rebuild the middle class and restore prosperity for American working people. The freedom of working people to form a union is an essential part of the green-jobs equation.
The transformation to a clean energy economy can create millions of new jobs and reinvigorate our existing manufacturing sector. The Blue Green Alliance believes that we can create these jobs in the United States and rebuild our middle class if we adopt the right trade and development policies.
Toxic chemicals are all around us - in our workplaces and communities. While many chemicals serve useful purposes and bring benefits to our lives, many are known to harm human health and the environment, and thousands of others have never even been assessed for safety. The Blue Green Alliance is advocating for a new approach.- strengthening existing standards regulating toxics, enact new policies at the state and federal level and - through an emerging area of science called "green chemistry" - invest in research and development of safe alternatives.
Energy
Climate Change
Workers' Rights
Trade
Green Chemistry
