Testimony & Comments / Made in America
The BlueGreen Alliance submitted comments in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s request for comments on the proposed general applicability public interest waiver of the Build America, Buy America Act as applied to the Clean Ports Program.
Press Releases / Clean Vehicles and Fuels
The White House, alongside the U.S. Departments of Transportation (DOT) and Energy (DOE), today released information regarding the nation’s strategy for electrifying freight corridors. Federally funded electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure is required to meet Buy America requirements, supporting domestic manufacturing of charging and other alternative fueling technology.
Press Releases / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) measure to overturn a recently finalized and temporary U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) waiver of Buy America policies for electric vehicle (EV) chargers.
Blog / Clean Vehicles and Fuels
Recently, the U.S. Senate passed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) measure sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), which would overturn a recently finalized U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) waiver of Buy America policies for electric vehicle (EV) chargers. To unpack why this CRA is so threatening to U.S. manufacturing, BlueGreen Alliance Senior Policy Advisor Reem Rayef breaks down what Buy America policies do, why they are important, and how waivers can be strategically used to maximize the impact of such policies.
Reports & Fact Sheets / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure
The Inflation Reduction Act expanded the availability of clean energy tax credits so that tax-exempt entities like public and non-profit hospitals can receive “direct pay” (also known as “elective pay”). In simple terms, direct pay allows such entities to recoup a significant portion of a clean energy project’s cost as a tax-free cash payment from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Reports & Fact Sheets / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure
Building healthier schools is within reach. Up to half the cost of a clean energy project at your school could be refunded to the district under the federal Inflation Reduction Act. Tax-exempt entities such as public schools can receive “direct pay” (also known as “elective pay”). In simple terms, direct pay lets school districts recoup a significant portion of a clean energy project’s cost as a cash payment from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Reports & Fact Sheets / Green Schools
Our Better Buildings Approach is a framework built to optimize the climate, health, equity, and job creation potential that the buildings sector represents.
Testimony & Comments / Clean Infrastructure
By investing to grow clean energy and modernize our grid; repair our failing roads, bridges, and water systems; improve the efficiency and health of our buildings; and transform our transportation systems, we can boost our economy and create millions of good jobs while also reducing pollution, combatting climate change, and making our communities healthier and safer.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Good Jobs
Federal and state agencies are playing a crucial role in uplifting workers and communities as they develop programmatic requirements and guidance to implement the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the CHIPS and Science Act. See our checklist which aims to ensure these investments support and create good-paying union jobs, protect worker rights, prioritize systematically marginalized communities, reduce emissions and pollution, and reinvests in U.S. manufacturing.
Press Releases / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) today released a final rule restoring and strengthening the regulations that implement the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, which set a wage floor—or “prevailing wage”—for publicly-funded construction projects.
Testimony & Comments / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure
Corridors of National Interest will help strengthen and expand transmission infrastructure necessary to reduce carbon emissions, increase clean energy, and create and maintain high-quality union jobs across the country. Transmission deployment and grid expansion critically need the direction and certainty that these designations will create.