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.
Building the jobs and industries of the future, including the transition to cleaner, renewable energy, will create millions of family-sustaining jobs. This transition will reinvigorate our manufacturing sector to produce new products such as wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles, while increased domestic recycling of used products like paper, metals, plastics, and e-waste can also generate jobs that support families, divert waste from landfills and ensure re-manufacturing is done in a safe and healthy manner.
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.
Overall, transportation accounts for two thirds of our oil consumption and a third of greenhouse gas pollution. We need cleaner, safer, more efficient transportation to create a 21st century transportation system that assures America continues to lead the global economy, reduces pollution and our dependence on foreign oil, and creates new jobs and opportunity for workers across the nation.
Energy
Climate Change
Trade
Chemicals
Transportation
