Letters / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Environment and Labor groups call for $4 Trillion infrastructure investment
We need immediate action that will build a more just, equitable, clean, and more prosperous American economy.
Updates & Resources
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Blog / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
New Report Card on Infrastructure Shows Dire Need to Build Back Better
Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) releases a Report Card grading the nation’s infrastructure from “A” to “F.” In 2017, the Infrastructure Report Card remained stagnant at a “D+”— the same grade the United States received in 2013. The current year’s report incrementally improved to a “C- ” scorecard— five categories increased and just one category decreased in their benchmarks. This improvement, however marginal, is the first time the metric has risen out of the D range in 20 years. Nonetheless, the report once again plainly demonstrates that America’s infrastructure is falling apart at the seams and we are not making long-term strides to fix the basic systems we rely on for clean water, energy, to communicate with each other, or to get from place to place.
Policy Priorities / Workers' Rights
BlueGreen Alliance Priorities for Economic Recovery
As we make investments to get the economy back on track, everything we do must be aimed at building a stronger, fairer, and cleaner economy that creates and sustains the good, high-paying jobs of the future and makes our communities and workers more resilient to crises.
Press Releases & Statements / Buy Clean
President Biden Adopts Historic Whole of Government Approach to Climate Action
President Joe Biden will sign today executive orders aimed at adopting a historic “whole of government” approach to addressing the climate crisis at the scale and scope demanded by science with solutions centered on achieving economic and environmental justice and quality, union job creation.
Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Comments on the Atlantic Wind Lease Sale 9 (ATLW–9) for Commercial Leasing for Wind Power on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Carolina Long Bay Area—Proposed Sale Notice
The BlueGreen Alliance appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments to inform the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) proposal to offer for sale a commercial wind energy lease in the Carolina Long Bay area offshore North Carolina (Lease Area).
Reports & Fact Sheets / Social Infrastructure
Social Infrastructure: A Platform to Ensure the Public Sector, Public Services, and Workers are Resilient for Future Crises and Climate Change
Americans face three ongoing interconnected crises: economic inequality, racial inequality, and climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic cast a harsh spotlight on the severely disproportionate impacts of these crises. It also exposed the decades-long disinvestment in our public sector and public services. Social infrastructure—the services required to promote the health and economic, cultural, and social well-being of the community—has too long been neglected and underfunded.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Donald Trump Has Misled American Workers and We’re All Paying the Price
Donald Trump is once again making sweeping statements of success and false promises from sea to shining swing state. But the numbers—and the facts—tell a different story.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Misled: The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Agenda on Working Families and the Environment
As the current presidential term comes to an end, the nation is at a natural moment for taking stock. In evaluating the Trump administration, Americans will want to know: has this President improved my situation in life and is the nation’s future brighter? Analysis of a range of policy actions made by the Trump administration reveals that overwhelmingly the answer to that fundamental question for working families is a resounding “no.”