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Americans don’t have to choose between creating good jobs and protecting the environment. We can and must do both.

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Clean Jobs

Innovating, building and installing the clean economy—clean energy, energy efficiency, safe chemicals, and clean vehicles—is protecting the environment while creating quality jobs across the country and ensuring the health of workers and the environment.

At a time when money was tight, one county in Michigan found a way to provide much needed energy and water efficiency upgrades to their buildings—creating quality local jobs, reducing pollution, and saving taxpayers' money along the way.

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Clean Infrastructure

Repairing America's infrastructure is a significant opportunity to create quality jobs. But it's also an opportunity to rebuild these systems to protect the health of workers and communities, to reduce carbon and methane emissions, and to build a stronger, more resilient system for the future.

In California, the BlueGreen Alliance worked with labor unions and environmental organizations to help enact SB 1371, which compels the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) to improve leak identification, repair, and avoidance, as well as better account for the climate change impact of natural gas leaks in the state’s natural gas distribution systems.

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Fair Trade

We can only achieve a thriving and fair clean economy if our international trade and climate agreements raise standards for workers, consumers, and the environment.

Throughout our history, the BlueGreen Alliance has worked not just domestically, but also on the international stage with leaders of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to find solutions for climate change that also create economic opportunity and a just transition for those impacted by this move to a clean, low-carbon economy.

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Report: 288,000 American Workers in 48 States are Building Technology for Cleaner Cars Today

May 23, 2017

Building clean vehicle technology directly supports 288,000 manufacturing and engineering jobs in the United States, according to a new report released by labor and environmental leaders. These workers are employed at more than 1,200 factories and engineering facilities in 48 states, making technology that improves fuel economy for today’s innovative vehicles—everything from more efficient transmissions and turbo-charged engines to light-weight steel and aluminum to electric power steering and regenerative braking.

BlueGreen Alliance Opposes Deep Cuts to Key Programs for Workers and the Environment in the President’s FY18 Budget

May 24, 2017

The BlueGreen Alliance, as a coalition of the nation’s largest labor unions and environmental groups, collectively representing millions of members and supporters, wrote to members of Congress today to strongly oppose the damaging cuts to critical agencies and programs outlined in the President’s FY18 Budget.

Supplying Ingenuity II: U.S. Suppliers Of Key Clean, Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Technologies

May 23, 2017

Over the past decade, the U.S. automotive industry has demonstrated that we can bring back American jobs and manufacturing and enhance industry competitiveness and profitability. American workers are building world-leading, popular vehicles that save consumers billions at the pump, enhance energy security, and cut pollution.

More Than 100 Organizations, Local Governments Urge Congress to Protect Coal Communities in Budget Process

May 17, 2017

More than 100 organizations, local governments, community development entities, and labor unions today sent a letter to Congress in support of funding for critical federal agencies and programs that have been most active in targeting assistance to communities and workers adapting to shifts in energy generation.

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