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Building Clean a FREE tool you can use to find local and healthy energy-efficient products. The Building Clean database supercharges efforts to find these healthy, American-made products and highlights a broad range of energy-efficient housing products.

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The BlueGreen Alliance unites America’s largest labor unions and its most influential environmental organizations to solve today’s environmental challenges in ways that create and maintain quality jobs and build a stronger, fairer economy.

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about the impacts of climate change and the job-creating opportunities of environmental protections.

Facilitate Dialogue

between environmentalists, union members and other stakeholders on shared goals.

Make Change

for good jobs, a clean environment, and a thriving and fair economy.

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

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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American-made energy efficient boiler.

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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Natural gas distribution pipe meter.

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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Help us identify ways to turn today’s environmental challenges into job-creating and economic opportunities!

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As Cities and Towns Across Country Struggle with Water Quality, EPA Proposes Ill-Conceived Clean Water Rule Rollback

Following the proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rescind the Clean Water Rule—a joint effort by the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that restored Clean Water Act protections for wetlands, streams and other waters to help better protect our drinking water supply—the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Kim Glas

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Help Make Your Workplace Safer and Healthier

Get informed about the dangers in your workplace by visiting Chemhat.org or by having an event highlighting breast cancer in the workplace using our Putting Breast Cancer Out of Work materials.

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BlueGreen Alliance, Dozens of Organizations Call on House Committee on Natural Resource to Pass Strong Version of RECLAIM ACT

The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources will be voting on the Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More (RECLAIM) Act of 2017. The key to it’s success, however, is staying true to the original bill’s intent and guarding against efforts to water it down or kill it to appease special interests and Washington insiders.

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