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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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BlueGreen Alliance Statement on President Trump’s Withdrawal of U.S. from Paris Agreement

Jun 01, 2017

After President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris agreement, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Kim Glas: “Withdrawing the United States from the Paris agreement is an abdication of this country’s responsibility to fight the climate crisis and to capitalize on the significant job-creating opportunities in a clean economy.”

Why Withdrawing from Paris is a Monumental Mistake

Jun 06, 2017

Last Thursday, the Trump administration officially announced that the United States would withdraw from the historic Paris agreement—a commitment of nearly every country in the world to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and which aims to keep the planet’s warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

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.

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