July 29, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
The BlueGreen Alliance released a statement on the Clean Ports Act of 2010, authored by U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), which will reduce air pollution at our nation's ports, improve public health, and create good jobs while alleviating the unfair burden placed upon them by the trucking industry.
July 27, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
The Aspen Institute awarded its 2010 Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Award for Non-Governmental Organization to the BlueGreen Alliance, a national strategic partnership of eight major U.S. labor unions and two of America's largest environmental organizations.
July 26, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
After Senate leaders announced that they would delay action on comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director David Foster.
July 20, 2010 | UNITED STEELWORKERS, BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
As the U.S. Senate prepares to take up clean energy legislation, members of the United Steelworkers today highlighted the more than 100,000 letters sent from USW members urging action on strong clean energy jobs legislation.
June 28, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE, UNITED STEELWORKERS, AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION
A new report shows how the U.S. wind industry can create tens of thousands of additional jobs manufacturing wind turbines and components if the U.S. passes long-term policies that create a stable market for the domestic wind energy supply chain.
June 22, 2010 | BGA
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman today announced the launch of Thinc.GreenMSP, an unprecedented economic-development partnership between the two cities to retain, grow and attract green-manufacturing businesses and jobs.
June 22, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
A landmark policy EPA policy will engage employees and their union representatives during environmental inspections of the nation's most dangerous industrial facilities.
June 15, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
Following President Barack Obama's address from the Oval Office, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director David Foster.
June 11, 2010 | UNITED STEELWORKERS, AWEA
The American Wind Energy Association and the United Steelworkers released a joint "Framework Agreement" to create a "Partnership for Progress" in accelerating the development and deployment of wind energy production in the U.S.
June 10, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
The BlueGreen Alliance sent a letter to Senator Majority Leader Reid expressing that we are eager to work with the Senate “to strengthen and pass comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation that includes vital policies and builds the fair and prosperous clean energy economy that America needs.”
June 04, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
Following May unemployment news, and recent indications that the Senate will move comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation in July, the BlueGreen Alliance said today that passing this legislation will create millions of clean energy jobs.
May 28, 2010 | BGA
President Obama visited the Gulf Coast on May 28, and after his recent statements urging Congress to move forward with climate change legislation, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director David Foster.
May 21, 2010 | BGA
President Barack Obama today instructed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation to develop a national emissions standard for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and to develop standards for cars and light trucks in 2017 and beyond.
May 18, 2010 | BGA
The BlueGreen Alliance today highlighted nearly 400 resolutions from local unions and members around the country urging action on comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation aimed at creating millions of clean energy jobs while reducing our dependence on foreign oil and protecting our environment for generations to come.
May 12, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
The BlueGreen Alliance commended Senators Kerry and Lieberman for introducing the American Power Act.
May 06, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
Hundreds of people went to Capitol Hill today to lobby members of Congress for comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation, chemicals reform and clean transportation as part of Green Jobs Advocacy Day.
May 04, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE, ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
Investments in America's freight rail system would create thousands of green jobs, improve the country's infrastructure, reduce dependence on foreign oil and lower carbon emissions, according to a report by BlueGreen Alliance and Economic Policy Institute.
May 03, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE, SIERRA CLUB, RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK, UNITED STEELWORKERS
The BlueGreen Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club and United Steelworkers released a report entitled "Illegal Logging in Indonesia: The Environmental, Economic and Social Costs."
April 22, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
On Earth Day, seven members of the United Steelworkers Union - each one representing a part of the supply chain involved in producing clean energy technologies in the United States - visited with lawmakers on Capitol Hill today to urge them to pass legislation with strong job-creating policies.
April 22, 2010 | BlueGreen Alliance
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 21, 2010) Following today’s announcement of Retrofit Ramp-Up Awards by Vice President Biden, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director David Foster:
April 15, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
The BlueGreen Alliance today released a statement after the introduction of the Safe Chemicals Act in the U.S. Senate.
April 14, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
The BlueGreen Alliance today urged Congress to pass comprehensive reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act to protect workers and communities from toxic chemicals, enhance public health and promote safer alternatives. The labor-environmental partnership released a statement outlining eight provisions for comprehensive reform.
March 24, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 24, 2010) Nearly forty union members from nine states traveled to Capitol Hill today to encourage their Senators to immediately pass comprehensive climate change legislation that will create and preserve millions of good jobs building the clean energy economy across the United States.
March 16, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance, Progressive States Network, CWA, Sierra Club
The Blue Green Alliance today commended the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Chairman Genachowski after the release of its National Broadband Plan.
March 11, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance released a statement from today after the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources conducted a hearing on energy efficiency and job creation.
March 10, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance announced that the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association joined the fast-growing labor-environmental partnership dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the clean energy economy.
March 04, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance
U.S. Representative Ed Markey, Chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and author of the requirement in the Recovery Act mandating the forthcoming National Broadband Plan, joined labor, environmental and progressive leaders to release a new report highlighting how broadband and related technologies can build a green economic future for America.
March 03, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council
The Blue Green Alliance, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club today applauded a preliminary determination by the U.S. Department of Commerce that Indonesian paper producers have benefited from government subsidies, including the government's provision of timber at below-market prices.
March 01, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance sent a letter to the U.S. Senate urging them to pass key provisions within various jobs legislation that shape and grow the economy while benefiting workers and the environment. The letter said provisions to save and create jobs must include proper investments and incentives in clean energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, and state fiscal relief.
February 01, 2010 | BLUE GREEN ALLIANCE
After the release of President Obama's fiscal year 2011 Budget, the Blue Green Alliance released a statement from Executive Director David Foster.
January 28, 2010 | BLUE GREEN ALLIANCE
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Tampa today to announce $8 billion in funding for high-speed rail projects in states across the country.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner held a roundtable discussion with members of the Mayors' Green Manufacturing Initiative, following a tour of a Honeywell in Golden Valley.
January 27, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance released the following statement after President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech.
January 26, 2010
Twin Cities building owners could save up to $10 million a year by transitioning to Day Shift Cleaning, according to a report released today by the Blue Green Alliance and SEIU Local 26.
January 21, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance announced that Charlotte Brody joined its staff as Director of Chemicals and Green Chemistry, and Jason Walsh joined the Blue Green Alliance as Director of Policy and Strategic Partnerships.
January 06, 2010
Blue Green Alliance Foundation, United Steelworkers, MnSCU Developing Green Manufacturing Training Program in Minnesota
December 19, 2009 | BLUE GREEN ALLIANCE
The Blue Green Alliance commended world leaders for reaching a historic agreement in Copenhagen to combat climate change and urged that a final treaty be focused on creating good, green jobs around the world.
December 08, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The 190,000 members of America's largest transit union, the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), joined the Blue Green Alliance.
December 07, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
As world leaders begin negotiations on a global agreement to reduce carbon emissions, the Blue Green Alliance today released a statement outlining its goals to reach an international agreement that reduces worldwide and U.S. emissions with the goal of creating millions of good jobs building the clean energy economy in the United States.
The Blue Green Alliance announced several events and spokespeople that will attend the COP 15 meetings in Copenhagen. Check back to www.bluegreenalliance.org for updates.
December 03, 2009 | BLUE GREEN ALLIANCE, NEW JERSEY WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL
More than 100 prominent labor and environmental organizations, are asking U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to enforce an existing law encouraging worker and union participation during EPA inspections of facilities using extremely hazardous substances.
November 06, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance will begin running a television ad tomorrow in Pennsylvania to thank Senator Arlen Specter for his vote to move clean energy legislation forward in the U.S. Senate.
November 04, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown joined the Blue Green Alliance today to discuss policy recommendations made in a new report aimed at creating hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs through development of a clean energy economy in the United States.
October 28, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
David Foster, Executive Director of the Blue Green Alliance testifies today in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
October 19, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance released a statement after the release of the Middle Class Task Force's Recovery Through Retrofit report.
September 30, 2009 | BLUE GREEN ALLIANCE
The Blue Green Alliance released a statement with the introduction of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act in the United States Senate.
September 24, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
As the G-20 Summit begins in Pittsburgh, the Blue Green Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director David Foster:
September 23, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, Repower America
The Alliance for Climate Protection's Repower America campaign, the United Steelworkers and the Blue Green Alliance concluded their Made in America Clean Energy Jobs Tour with a rally in Pittsburgh today. The Jobs Tour, a month-long campaign with more than 50 events in 22 states.
September 22, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
Following President Barack Obama’s address today before the United Nations Climate Change Summit, the Blue Green Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director David Foster:
September 04, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance released a statement today after the Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate has increased to 9.7 percent, with a loss of 216,000 jobs in August.
September 02, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, Repower America
Congressman John Dingell and Obama Administration Department of Energy Official David Sandalow joined clean energy workers, business owners, labor leaders and community members last night in River Rouge, Michigan for the Made in America Jobs Tour.
September 02, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, Repower Indiana
U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson joined workers, business owners, labor leaders and community members Tuesday in Gary, Ind., for the Made in America Jobs Tour.
August 19, 2009
The Alliance for Climate Protection's Repower America campaign, in partnership with the Blue Green Alliance and its labor and environmental partners, today embarked on a nationwide Made in America Jobs tour.
August 12, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
Following the release of a report by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) today, the Blue Green Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director David Foster.
August 06, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance released a statement after ten U.S. Senators wrote to President Barack Obama to convey the need to maintain a level playing field for American manufacturing in climate change legislation.
July 16, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, AFT
The Blue Green Alliance today announced that the 1.4-million-member American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has joined the fast-growing labor-environmental partnership.
July 14, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance is running television and newspaper advertisements thanking members of Congress for voting in favor of comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation.
June 27, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
After the U.S. House of Representatives today passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the Blue Green Alliance released a statement from Executive Director David Foster.
June 26, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
Following the announcement that the Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology (IMPACT) ACT will be included in the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the Blue Green Alliance released a statement from Executive Director David Foster.
June 23, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
As Congress debates clean energy legislation, the Blue Green Alliance today announced that the Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) will join the fast-growing labor-environmental partnership.
June 19, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance, along with an array of labor unions and environmental organizations, said today that they oppose allowing heavier and longer trucks, including huge triple-trailer trucks, on the nation's highways.
June 17, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance released a statement from Executive Director David Foster after Senator Sherrod Brown announced the Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology (IMPACT) Act.
June 17, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, Sierra Club
A diverse coalition of groups representing more than 10 million Americans launched a major advertising campaign this week urging Congress to pass and strengthen the American Clean Energy & Security Act, which is likely to come up for a vote on the House floor next week.
June 15, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, REPP
More than 850,000 manufacturing jobs at firms already in existence across all 50 states could be created with the enactment of a national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) of 25 percent by 2025.
June 08, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, New Jersey Work Environment Council
The Blue Green Alliance announced today that the New Jersey Work Environment Council (WEC) will join the national labor-environmental partnership as a New Jersey affiliate.
May 21, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
On Thursday May 21, 2009, Blue Green Alliance Executive Director David Foster received the Peter A.A. Berle Environmental Integrity Award at the office of the Century Foundation in New York City.
The Blue Green Alliance released a statement from Executive Director David Foster after the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
May 13, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
BGA released a statement from Executive Director David Foster after news that House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats reached consensus on international competitiveness provisions.
April 22, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
On Earth Day, Blue Green Alliance Executive Director David Foster testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as part of a panel on "Green Jobs and Economic Benefits."
The Blue Green Alliance today said that working people are the new faces of Earth Day, and that Congress must pass the Employee Free Choice Act to ensure jobs in the clean energy economy are good, family-supporting green jobs.
April 15, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance began running ads this week in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio entitled, "America Wants Green Jobs" to highlight working people in the green economy and to encourage strong climate change legislation in 2009.
March 31, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance said that the Waxman-Markey bill takes a first step toward building a strong clean energy economy.
March 30, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
Yvette Pena Lopes joined BGA as Director of Legislation and Intergovernmental Affairs in Washington, D.C. Pena Lopes comes to BGA after working as Legislative Representative for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
March 27, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The four labor unions and two environmental organizations that make up the Blue Green Alliance announced their support for comprehensive cap-and-trade climate change legislation in 2009, which they said will rapidly put millions of Americans back to work and reduce global warming emissions.
March 19, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Middle Class Task Force visited New Flyer in St. Cloud, Minnesota, a bus company that produces low-emission, alternative-fuel vehicles to discuss how the Recovery Act will help the middle class at a facility where many employees are members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
March 10, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
Labor and environmental leaders came together in Indianapolis to launch the Indiana Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to building a clean energy economy in Indiana that creates good jobs and helps to protect the environment.
February 27, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance praised the first Middle Class Task Force Meeting in Philadelphia and its focus on green jobs as a pathway to a strong middle class in the United States.
February 06, 2009 | Good Jobs, Green JObs
After a multitude of plenary speeches, workshops, a Green Jobs Expo, and Green Jobs Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson delivered the final keynote address of the second Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference.
February 04, 2009 | Good Jobs, Green Jobs
Bringing their ideas for economic recovery to the nation's capital, more than 2,500 advocates of investments in a green jobs stimulus convened at the Marriott Wardman Park and Omni Shoreham Hotels today for the opening of the Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference.
February 03, 2009 | Good Jobs, Green JObs
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will address more than 2,500 labor, environmental and business advocates on Friday, February 6, at 11:40 a.m. EST at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. during the Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference.
January 08, 2009 | Kansas Blue Green Alliance
With Kansas standing to gain more than 11,000 manufacturing jobs in renewable energy, local labor unions, community and farm organizations, and environmental groups came together to form a Kansas chapter of the Blue Green Alliance.
December 11, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
SEIU and LIUNA announced that they would join the Blue Green Alliance, a growing labor-environmental partnership to mobilize the nation to transform the U.S. economy by investing in clean energy and other global warming solutions.
December 03, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance spotlighted the value of a "green recovery" for the United States at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), December 1-12, in Poznań, Poland.
November 06, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance today said green jobs were a defining issue in the 2008 elections. And with news that the number of people continuing to receive unemployment benefits reached its highest level in more than 25 years, the national partnership between labor unions and environmental organizations also said that the U.S. should move forward with a "green recovery" to create jobs, increase energy independence and reduce global warming pollution.
October 08, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
As the U.S. faces high energy prices and a severe economic crisis, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) today announced that they would join the Blue Green Alliance. Together with the Sierra Club and United Steelworkers, the Alliance now unites more than four million people in an unprecedented partnership to realize the enormous potential of the green economy.
September 09, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
A new report released today shows that the United States can create 2 million jobs over two years by investing in a rapid green economic recovery program. The report also shows this $100 billion green investment package would create nearly four times more jobs than spending the same amount of money within the oil industry, and would reduce the unemployment rate to 4.4 percent over two years.
August 01, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
As the unemployment rate reached a four-year high, and after Congress failed this week to extend essential renewable-energy tax credits, the Blue Green Alliance said today that the U.S. is missing an enormous opportunity to create middle-class green jobs that will reinvigorate our economy, increase our energy independence and fight the global-climate crisis.
July 30, 2008 | Star Tribune, July 30, 2008
July 21, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance today welcomed former Vice President Al Gore's challenge to build a new energy economy, saying that investments in renewable-energy alternatives will help to create middle-class green jobs in the United States.
June 26, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
Increasing investment in the "green" economy could produce tens of thousands of new Ohio manufacturing jobs in the coming years. That was the consensus of more than 75 people who attended a town hall Wednesday night hosted by USW, BGA and the We Campaign.
June 03, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance, Green Jobs for America
Workers at every skill level will be in high demand and enjoy greater job security in key industries essential to building a clean-energy economy in America and fighting global warming, according to a new report released today by a coalition of conservation and labor groups.
April 22, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
Mayors Chris Coleman of Saint Paul and R.T. Rybak of Minneapolis presented a commissioned study providing a blueprint for both cities to pursue green manufacturing opportunities and take advantage of the expanding business sectors around green products and design. Leaders from government, labor, business, academia and environmental groups joined together to release the study.
March 31, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance joined the Alliance for Climate Protection, the nonprofit organization founded by Vice President Al Gore, as part of its rapidly expanding coalition of organizations taking steps to solve the climate crisis.
January 01, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance, Alliance for Climate Protection and Repower America
Find out more about the Made in America Jobs Tour.
January 01, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance, United Steelworkers, Repower America
Join us in Pittsburgh on September 23 at 7 p.m. for a rally for clean energy jobs.
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