BlueGreen Alliance Unveils New Manufacturing Roadmap
The BlueGreen Alliance released its 2025 Manufacturing Roadmap today. The resource highlights major progress made in domestic manufacturing growth and recommendations for further action to secure the clean manufacturing renaissance our country needs. The roadmap emphasizes that clean manufacturing is the future of all manufacturing, and therefore competitiveness depends on sustaining investment in industrial transformation.
Recommendations include:
- Sustaining the manufacturing revival that federal action—like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act—has kickstarted;
- Promoting new investments for clean technology manufacturing and industrial transformation;
- Incorporating full and intentional utilization of the federal government’s procurement tools;
- Utilizing U.S. trade policy to support manufacturing competitiveness and emissions reductions; and
- Ensuring manufacturing jobs are good jobs.
Since President Trump took office and appointed Elon Musk as head of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, he has targeted federal funding that supports clean manufacturing growth. He unlawfully impounded billions of dollars allocated under the Inflation Reduction Act and the BIL, told lawmakers to scrap the $52 billion CHIPS and Science Act designed in part to support the domestic clean vehicle supply chain, and undermined the offices in charge of administering the funds.
“Over the past four years, our nation finally implemented a much-needed industrial policy, growing our manufacturing sector and widening access to good, union jobs,” said United Steelworkers (USW) International President David McCall. “Now, the federal government, industry, and unions must once again come together to capitalize on this momentum as we continue to build out our critical supply chains and reinvest in our communities.”
“In red states and blue states across the country, we are fighting to make sure that every next-generation auto and EV battery job is UAW,” said Rajiv Sicora, Legislative Director at the United Auto Workers (UAW). “And we need the federal government to have our backs. The United States is finally waking up to the importance of a strong manufacturing sector—and as this report outlines, it’s time for an integrated trade and industrial policy agenda that puts workers first.”
Since the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law, private investment in U.S. manufacturing has skyrocketed. Business and consumer investment totaled $493 billion since 2023, a 71% increase from the two-year period preceding the passage of the law.
“For the first time in decades, America has begun to open factories across the country thanks to the landmark legislation we secured under the last administration,” said Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous. “This progress has created the pathway for America to lead the world in industrial transformation, and our leaders must seize the opportunity in front of them so we can create jobs, rebuild communities, and create and sustain a healthy environment with economic gains for everyone.”
“To lead this next era of clean industrial manufacturing, the United States must deliver on the critical federal investments started by the last administration,” said NRDC Action Fund President and CEO Manish Bapna. “The federal government has an opportunity to revive domestic industries, compete in the global clean economy, and protect the health of our communities and workers. We cannot let up now.”
“We’re making things in America again because of historic federal investments passed during the last administration,” said BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh. “Federal investments have already begun to deliver the manufacturing revitalization we’ve needed for decades. If President Trump wants to help domestic manufacturing like he claims, he needs to let these transformative economic policies build a clean economy where everyone succeeds, not just billionaires.”