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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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Good 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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New Organizing Drive Puts Workers Front and Center in Move to Cleaner Economy

Dec 15, 2018

The United Steelworkers (USW) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) have announced a campaign to organize workers at a Tesla solar facility in Buffalo, New York. In response to this effort, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Kim Glas:

CARB Commits to Zero Emission Buses and Job Creation in New Rule

Dec 14, 2018

The California Air Resources Board voted today to mandate that all transit agencies in California operate 100 percent zero emission transit buses by 2040, and to use this transition to invest in workforce development training programs in manufacturing, infrastructure installation, and maintenance.

COP24: Two Days Left and Many Unresolved Issues

Dec 13, 2018

Two days remain at the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Katowice, Poland. Much remains to be done to ensure that efforts to address climate change meet the current challenge and create and secure quality jobs and economic opportunities worldwide.

Americans Make Their Voices Heard: Don’t Kill Jobs by Rolling Back Fuel Economy Standards

Nov 13, 2018

Thousands of Americans have voiced their opposition to the rollback of the fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards. Their concerns are wide ranging and speak to the alarming potential impacts of the rollback for the environment, national security, public health, and more. The BlueGreen Alliance joined this chorus to express our dismay at the proposed changes to the rule, and to examine the potentially damaging impacts to American manufacturing and jobs.

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State Labor, Environmental Leaders Announce BlueGreen Alliance State Chapter in Colorado

New Organizing Drive Puts Workers Front and Center in Move to Cleaner Economy

CARB Commits to Zero Emission Buses and Job Creation in New Rule

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COP24: Two Days Left and Many Unresolved Issues

Americans Make Their Voices Heard: Don’t Kill Jobs by Rolling Back Fuel Economy Standards

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