July 27, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
On July 26, the BlueGreen Alliance accepted the 2010 Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Award at the Aspen Environment Forum. The following are Executive Director David Foster's remarks at the event.
June 28, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE, UNITED STEELWORKERS, AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION
A new report from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), BlueGreen Alliance and the United Steelworkers shows that 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
"Manufacturing Better Business" is a strategic plan to create good, green manufacturing jobs in Minneapolis Saint Paul through a partnership partnership.
June 22, 2010 | NEW JERSEY WORK ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL
The New Jersey Work Environment Council, the state's labor-environmental partnership, explains the new policy from EPA to allow workers and their representatives to participate in inspections conducted under the Clean Air Act.
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 07, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
The BlueGreen Alliance sent a letter to the U.S. Department of State last week urging a strong, effective, and enforceable international agreement that addresses climate change and begins a just transition towards the clean energy economy.
May 18, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
Hundreds of local unions and members around the country have signed a resolution urging action on comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation.
May 17, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
The BlueGreen Alliance put together this fact sheet on the economic and social impacts of illegal logging in Indonesia.
May 11, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster sent this letter to members of Congress urging them to pass the HOME STAR Energy Retrofit Act of 2010.
May 04, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE, ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
May 03, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE, UNITED STEELWORKERS, SIERRA CLUB, NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK,
The BlueGreen Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club and United Steelworkers today released a report entitled Illegal Logging in Indonesia: The Environmental Economic and Social Costs. The report illustrates the connections between environmental devastation abroad, global warming, and the industry and job losses at home, and follows a recent preliminary determination by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) that Indonesian paper producers have benefitted from dumping practices.
April 22, 2010 | BlueGreen Alliance, United Steelworkers and Alliance for American Manufacturing
As we mark the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, 2010, our nation is making strides towards a clean energy economy. It is critical that, as we undergo this transition, clean energy policies not only achieve our environmental goals, but our economic ones as well by making sure all workers throughout our economy play a role. Read this fact sheet from the BlueGreen Alliance, United Steelworkers and the Alliance for American Manufacturing about clean energy manufacturing jobs and Earth Day.
April 14, 2010 | BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
The BlueGreen Alliance and its partners will work for the passage of legislation on chemicals policy, chemical security and occupational safety and health based on these principles.
The BlueGreen Alliance released a statement on chemicals policy reform in the United States focused on protecting workers and communities from toxic chemicals, enhancing public health and promoting safer alternatives.
March 04, 2010
The Blue Green Alliance, Communications Workers of America, Sierra Club, and Progressive States Network have released a report entitled "Networking the Green Economy: How Broadband and Related Technologies Can Build a Green Economic Future."
March 01, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance sent a letter to the Senate today urging a new jobs bill that shapes and grows the economy while benefiting workers and the environment. 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
The Blue Green Alliance sent a letter to the United States Senate today urging that comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation be put at the top of the agenda in coming weeks.
January 26, 2010
Clean Sweep: How a New Approach to Cleaning Commercial Buildings in the Twin Cities Can Protect Our Health and the Environment while Securing Jobs and Saving Money examines the benefits of Day Shift and Green Cleaning to our environment and our economy.
January 20, 2010 | Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
A new report, "The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act" by Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, says "the U.S. has the opportunity to prevent rising rates of chronic disease and reduce health care costs by overhauling federal chemical policy. Evidence is strong and growing that chemical exposures contribute significantly to the rise in many chronic diseases, according to this new report synthesizing peer-reviewed science."
January 08, 2010 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance joined with environmental organizations on January 8 to urge Senators to oppose the Murkowski Amendment.
December 07, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance released this policy statement as world leaders gather this week to negotiate a global agreement on climate change.
December 03, 2009 | Sierra Club, Demos, EDF, NWF, NRDC and UCS
Six major environmental organizations sent this letter to the Senate in December outlining their desire for climate legislation that prevents carbon pollution leakage and assures international competitiveness.
December 02, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, New Jersey Work Environment Council
The Blue Green Alliance and the New Jersey Work Environment Council, along with 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.
December 01, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance is holding several events throughout the COP 15 meetings in Copenhagen. Check out the attached flyer for more information.
November 30, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance is bringing jump drives to COP 15. Check out some of what is on them here.
November 05, 2009
November 04, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, Renewable Energy Policy Project
The Blue Green Alliance released a set of policy recommendations aimed at creating hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs through development of a clean energy economy in the United States.
October 29, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Mayors' Green Manufacturing Initiative, led by Mayor Christopher B. Coleman, Mayor RT Rybak and the Blue Green Alliance, is working to make Minneapolis and Saint Paul a green manufacturing center.
October 28, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
BGA Executive Director David Foster will testify on Wednesday, October 28, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.
October 23, 2009 | BLUE GREEN ALLIANCE
September 22, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
On September 22, Blue Green Alliance Executive Director David Foster penned a letter to the Senate urging opposition to Sen. Murkowski’s amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill, which would hamper the EPA's ability to implement climate change legislation passed by Congress.
July 07, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
BGA sent a letter to members of Congress on July 7 thanking them for voting in favor of the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
June 26, 2009 | United Steelworkers
The United Steelworkers and Aluminum producer Alcoa sent a letter to members of Congress encouraging them to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
June 25, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance sent a letter today to members of Congress asking them to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act when it comes up for a vote this week.
June 22, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance and its labor and environmental partners are running ads this week in the Politico, CongressDaily, the Hill and CQ encouraging Congress to strengthen and pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
On June 22, BGA sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives to encourage them to strengthen and pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
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.
May 29, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, Communications Workers of America
The Blue Green Alliance is pleased to join with CWA's Speed Matters campaign to make affordable high-speed Internet accessible to everyone - reducing our carbon footprint while promising substantial economic pay-offs.
May 21, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
The Blue Green Alliance, along with an array of labor unions and environmental organizations, sent a letter to members of Congress May 21 to encourage them to support the Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act.
Blue Green Alliance partners sent this letter to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on May 21 to encourage passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
April 22, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance
BGA Director of Legislation and Intergovernmental Affairs Yvette Pena Lopes delivered testimony April 22 on behalf of Executive David Foster urging clean energy legislation in 2009 that creates good, family-sustaining green jobs.
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.
March 24, 2009 | Blue Green Alliance, USW, Sierra Club, and Partners
On March 24, BGA joined with the United Steelworkers, Sierra Club, AFL-CIO, Friends of the Earth, OxFam America and the Washington Office on Latin Amerca in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
September 09, 2008 | Green Jobs for America
This report by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and Center for American Progress shows that a rapid investment in six global warming strategies will create nearly 2 million jobs in two years.
June 03, 2008 | Green Jobs for America
This report, released in June 2008, examines 12 states and the people employed in occupations affected by six green economic strategies: building retrofitting, mass transit, energy-efficient automobiles, wind power, solar power and cellulosic biofuels.
April 22, 2008 | Blue Green Alliance
A recent study provides a blueprint for both cities to pursue green manufacturing opportunities and take advantage of the expanding business sectors around green products and design.
November 11, 2007 | Blue Green Alliance
This report shows the potential of a national Renewable Electricity Standard to create thousands of jobs making parts for wind turbines, solar panels and other clean energy technologies.
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