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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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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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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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Wheeler has a chance to get the EPA back on track, will he take it?

The Environmental Protection Agency is finally free of former Administrator Scott Pruitt, but the damage he did while at the helm of the agency lingers. Under Pruitt’s leadership, the EPA veered wildly off course, betraying its mission to protect public health and the environment every step of the way. With Pruitt gone it’s time to right the ship and get the agency back on track. However, with Andrew Wheeler now leading the agency—and given his professional history—significant change in a positive direction is up in the air. 

Energy Efficiency Can Grow Jobs and Boost American Manufacturing

The energy efficiency industry holds immense potential to create quality jobs while boosting the economy and saving consumers money, but it’s often overlooked. At the Environmental and Energy Study Institute’s Renewable and Energy Efficiency Expo on Capitol Hill last week, the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation’s Building Clean Senior Program Associate, Silvia Lucero, took part in a panel discussion, sharing with the crowd the massive opportunity to create quality jobs in the energy efficiency sector.

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