SB 787 (McNerney) and AB 1280 (Garcia) will help decarbonize sectors of California’s economy while keeping our businesses competitive and creating high-road, union jobs. It has never been more important for California to take the lead amidst an uncertain federal environment so workers and communities are not left behind. 

President Donald Trump signed the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law today. This sweeping bill repeals clean energy investments that would create millions of manufacturing and construction jobs around the country as well as expanding energy options around the country for an overtaxed electric grid.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives upheld the Senate’s revisions to the budget bill working its way through Congress. The so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” repeals clean energy investments that would create millions of manufacturing and construction jobs around the country.

Union leaders and labor advocates from across Wisconsin held a virtual press conference today to speak out against President Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

The U.S. Senate voted today to pass its budget bill. The Senate version of the bill claws back grant funding aiding the transition to a clean energy economy and upholds a rollback of clean energy and advanced manufacturing tax credits passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The budget bill puts 2 million jobs within the country’s burgeoning clean energy manufacturing footprint at risk. No Democratic Senators supported the bill. 

A new research brief released today by the BlueGreen Alliance reveals that more than two million jobs across the manufacturing employment footprint are at risk if the budget reconciliation bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law. The House bill introduces provisions that would effectively kill tax credits for clean and advanced manufacturing by making them unusable and sunsetting them early.

Atlantic Shores filed to terminate its 1.5-gigawatt offshore wind project with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). The termination filing comes after the Trump administration took major steps to dismantle the domestic offshore wind industry.

We write in strong opposition to the Office of Personnel Management’s proposed rule titled “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service,” published on April 23, 2025. Contrary to its stated intentions, this proposed rule would severely undermine the integrity and professionalism of the federal civil service by
reviving and expanding upon the discredited “Schedule F” policy from the first Trump administration—rebranded as “Schedule Policy/Career.”

The Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it would cancel more than $3.7 billion in funding for cutting edge manufacturing projects across the country. Many of the defunded projects were in Republican districts that voted heavily for President Donald Trump. China announced earlier this year that it is funding 100 industrial demonstration projects to produce similar decarbonization technologies.

In a nearly party-line vote, House Republicans passed a budget reconciliation bill that would effectively kill clean energy and manufacturing tax credits. Every single Democratic member of the House voted against the bill.

Offshore wind developer Equinor announced it would immediately resume construction on the Empire Wind project off the coast of New York state. The construction was stalled by a stop order from the Trump administration.

Today, Colorado Governor Jared Polis vetoed Senate Bill 25-005, the “Worker Protection Collective Bargaining Act.” This decision keeps an outdated law on the books that forces workers to hold a second election after voting to form a union. The law requires a 75% supermajority in the second vote.