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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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STATEMENT: Congress Supports Funding for Important Clean Energy Programs in Appropriations Bill

Sep 14, 2018

Congress passed today an appropriations package funding several government agencies for fiscal year 2019, including the Department of Energy and Appalachian Regional Commission. The bill squarely rejects the deep funding cuts for clean energy and advanced manufacturing programs that were included in the president’s fiscal year 2019 budget request.

BlueGreen Alliance Applauds House Passage of America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018

Sep 13, 2018

The U.S. House today passed America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018. The bill includes provisions intended to drive investments in water infrastructure, support the creation of quality family-sustaining jobs here in the United States, and ensure that all Americans have access to clean drinking water.

Testimony of Frank Houston at EPA, NHTSA Hearing on Fuel Economy Standards

Sep 25, 2018

The BlueGreen Alliance’s Frank Houston testified at a hearing of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on September 25, 2018 in Dearborn, MI to oppose the agencies’ proposal to weaken the nation’s leading fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards.

Testimony of Zoe Lipman at EPA, NHTSA Hearing on Fuel Economy Standards

Sep 25, 2018

The BlueGreen Alliance’s Zoe Lipman testified at a hearing of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on September 25, 2018 in Dearborn, MI to oppose the agencies’ proposal to weaken the nation’s leading fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards.

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STATEMENT: Congress Supports Funding for Important Clean Energy Programs in Appropriations Bill