Updates & Resources

Feb 12, 2023

When buildings are designed, built, and maintained to protect the health of people and the environment—and if the manufacturing of building products and materials create good-paying union jobs in the U.S.—then the wellbeing of people and communities will improve, especially for people of color. Building Clean works to increase the use of building products that are more efficient, less toxic, and manufactured in the U.S. We aim to improve the physical, environmental, and economic health of communities and promote a more equitable future for all.

Good Jobs

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

Jul 25, 2019

Manufacturing towns dot the nation, and advanced manufacturing helps provide the foundation for the economy in major regions of the United States. Industries like the steel and automotive industries supported good-paying jobs, middle-class families, and prosperous communities for decades, while also spurring American leadership in innovation and technology. That’s still true in some areas. But in many others, factories have closed or new industries offer jobs that all too often are poorly paid, insecure, or unsafe.

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Testimony & Comments / Advanced Manufacturing

BlueGreen Alliance Testimony to Minnesota State House Climate and Energy Finance and Policy Committee

Jan 10, 2023

Together they will revitalize U.S. manufacturing, grow clean energy, and support and create good union jobs in Minnesota and around the country. They will also significantly reduce climate emissions. The Inflation Reduction Act alone will tackle climate change by reducing emissions up to 42% by 2030.

Testimony & Comments / Clean Infrastructure

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to Request For Information from CT, ME, MA, NH, and RI for a Northeast Regional Transmission Initiative

Oct 28, 2022

Offshore transmission and grid infrastructure can ensure that clean power is delivered to communities across the country, while also ensuring that our infrastructure is resilient and reliable.

Testimony & Comments / Clean Infrastructure

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to Request for Information on the Grid Innovation and Resilience Partnership Program

Oct 14, 2022

Investing in transmission and electric infrastructure is an excellent opportunity to put people to work in the clean economy.

High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure

Interior Department Guidance for Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funds for Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Will Ensure Good Jobs, Support Communities

Jul 26, 2022

New guidance from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) will help determine how states spend $11.3 billion of funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to clean up abandoned mine lands.

Testimony & Comments / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to U.S. Department of Energy’s Request for Information on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Transmission Facilitation Program

Jun 13, 2022

As DOE works to implement the Transmission Facilitation Program, it must ensure that these investments support workers and communities and translate into high-road, union jobs, and accessible jobs for workers of color and other segments of the population historically left behind.

Testimony & Comments / Green Schools

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to U.S. Department of Energy RFI: Designing Equitable, Sustainable, Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs

May 06, 2022

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the buildings sector accounts for 31% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Public buildings, in particular, have the potential to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These types of buildings, also known as Municipal, University, Schools, Hospitals (MUSH) tend to be the most energy intensive because they are typically large, old and have high electricity demand.

Press Releases / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Sen. Tina Smith Joins Labor, Environmental Leaders for Tour of Laborers Training Center

Apr 22, 2022

In honor of Earth Day, Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) joined LIUNA Minnesota, Conservation Minnesota, and the BlueGreen Alliance for a tour of the Laborers Training Center in Lino Lakes. The group toured the facility’s pipe, construction, and environmental bays, where workers prepare for jobs in clean energy and infrastructure.

Letters / Clean Vehicles and Fuels

Recommendations from BlueGreen Alliance on the Implementation of the Clean School Bus Program

Mar 02, 2022

The BlueGreen Alliance provided input on the implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration’s (EPA) Clean School Bus Program.

Press Releases / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure

New Executive Order Will Promote Good, Union Jobs, Protect Workers and the Environment

Feb 04, 2022

At an event today, President Joe Biden outlined a new executive order (EO) designed to ensure Project Labor Agreements (PLAs)—collective bargaining agreements covering all of the craft workers on a construction project that provide comprehensive guidance and set mutual expectations for large projects—are required for federally funded projects over $35 million dollars. PLAs are considered the gold standard of labor provisions by most building trades unions.

Water Infrastructure

VP Harris Visit to Milwaukee Brings Attention to Ongoing Lead Crisis

Jan 24, 2022

Vice President Kamala Harris today met with community members and workers in Milwaukee to learn more about the impact of lead service lines on the city. There are currently 70,000 lead service lines in Milwaukee that need to be replaced and the city will receive funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to advance that effort.

For America, By America

Congress Needs to Vote on Build Back Better

Nov 05, 2021

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), one piece of the president’s agenda to build back better that includes investments to repair and modernize America’s surface transportation systems and funding to reclaim abandoned mine lands. Following the passage of the bill, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Ways and Means Reconciliation Package Provides Important Clean Energy and Manufacturing Tax Credits, including Critical Labor and Domestic Content Provisions, but Room for Improvement Remains

Sep 16, 2021

The Committee on Ways and Means yesterday passed its budget reconciliation package, a broad piece of legislation that includes several tax credits supporting the deployment of clean energy and the growth of the nation’s clean technology manufacturing sector and supply chains. Critically, the bill has language to ensure these investments translate into good jobs and domestic manufacturing.

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