Polling released today showed voters in the Midwest vigorously support making rebuilding and retooling the American manufacturing sector a critical component of recovery efforts by Congress or the Biden administration.
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.
about the impacts of climate change and the job-creating opportunities of environmental protections.
between environmentalists, union members and other stakeholders on shared goals.
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.
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.
Solidarity for Climate Action is our plan to put working people front and center as we create a new economy: one that values our work, our families, our communities, and our environment.
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.
Buy Clean policies promote spending taxpayer dollars on infrastructure supplies for materials that are manufactured in a cleaner, more efficient, climate friendly manner—helping to close the carbon loophole and rewarding companies that are doing things the right way. The BlueGreen Alliance launched a multi-state campaign to expand Buy Clean work to Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota and continue implementation efforts in California.
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.
Let policymakers know you support Solidarity for Climate Action, our plan to put working people front and center as we create a new economy: one that values our work, our families, our communities, and our environment.
President Joe Biden will sign today executive orders aimed at adopting a historic “whole of government” approach to addressing the climate crisis at the scale and scope demanded by science with solutions centered on achieving economic and environmental justice and quality, union job creation. Included in the actions that will be signed today are measures to direct and coordinate federal agencies under White House leadership, help impacted coal communities and workers, direct federal agencies to institute science and evidence based decision-making, prioritizing federal procurement of clean, domestic-made fleets, and center climate in our foreign policy. In response, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:
President Joe Biden today signed an executive order directing government agencies to strengthen Buy American procurement policies to ensure that more goods and services used on federal projects are sourced from U.S. businesses and workers. In response, the BlueGreen Alliance release the following statement from Jason Walsh:
President Joe Biden today took executive action directing the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) to begin consideration of issuing an emergency temporary standard to protect workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, President Biden issued an executive order taking the first steps toward invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) to ensure that the nation has access to the personal protective equipment needed during the pandemic. In response, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:
Help us identify ways to turn today’s environmental challenges into job-creating and economic opportunities!
A new report released by the BlueGreen Alliance today entitled examines the current state of the oil and gas industry in Colorado and New Mexico and provides recommendations to blunt the impacts to workers due to the industry’s boom and bust cycle.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are inheriting a nation in crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic has touched every corner of our society and its impacts have exacerbated the ongoing and devastating crises of climate change, economic inequality, and racial inequality. The actions that this administration take now will determine the course of our recovery from this overwhelming chapter of American history.
Americans face three ongoing interconnected crises: economic inequality, racial inequality, and climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic cast a harsh spotlight on the severely disproportionate impacts of these crises. It also exposed the decades-long disinvestment in our public sector and public services. Social infrastructure—the services required to promote the health and economic, cultural, and social well-being of the community—has too long been neglected and underfunded.
