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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

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

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 / Clean Infrastructure

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s Proposed Pipeline Safety: Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair Rule

Investing in methane mitigation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, smog- and soot-forming compounds, and toxic pollution, make workers and communities around the pipelines safer and healthier, and generate and support good-paying jobs. Reducing Methane Leaks is a Win-Win-Win for Workers, Communities, and the Climate.

Methane Mitigation

New Study of US EPA Methane Rule Highlights Jobs Potential of Plugging Methane Leaks in Oil and Gas Industry

A new study from the BlueGreen Alliance on economic impacts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) supplemental methane rule released in November 2022 found the adoption of leak reducing technologies and practices at new, modified, and existing oil and gas facilities would create over 136,000 job-years through 2035. A job-year represents an increase in demand for employment sufficient to employ one person for a full year.  

Reports & Fact Sheets / Methane Mitigation

Plugging the Leaks 2.0: Protect Workers, Reduce Pollution, and Create Quality Jobs by Reducing Methane Waste in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry

Reducing methane emissions in the United States is yet another example of how the nation’s environmental challenges can also be economic opportunities. Methane is a greenhouse gas (GHG) that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) and one of the largest contributors to climate change. Reducing methane emissions can reap economic benefits for…

Good Jobs

DOL, DOI, and EPA Work Together to Ensure Use of High-Road Labor Standards

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) pledging to work together to ensure the use of high-road labor standards on DOI and EPA funded projects. Lee Geisse, Ohio Regional Program Manager for the BlueGreen Alliance, joined the event, participating in a fireside chat about the importance of bringing together diverse stakeholders with Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su.

Blog / Clean Infrastructure

A Guide to Methane Mitigation Part 2: How EPA’s Proposed Methane Rule and the Methane Emissions Reduction Program Work Together

The following blog is part two of a two part series authored by Sean Gordon, BlueGreen Alliance Associate Policy Advisor In part one of this blog series, we explored the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2022 proposed rule for methane pollution from the oil and gas industry and the Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP) established…

Testimony & Comments / Methane Mitigation

BlueGreen Alliance Comments on Department of the Interior’s Orphaned Wells Remediation Program

In comments to the U.S. Department of the Interior, the BlueGreen Alliance welcome the continued rollout of DOI’s orphaned well remediation program and appreciate the opportunity to provide further comments on how that program can be implemented in ways that create high-quality, family-sustaining jobs, reduce methane emissions and pollution, and leave behind healthier and cleaner communities.

Testimony & Comments / Methane Mitigation

BlueGreen Alliance Response to the EPA’s proposed rule on methane emissions in the oil and gas sector

Investing in methane mitigation will not just make workers and communities around the facilities safer and healthier, but will also generate and support quality, family-sustaining jobs. With this program, workers and communities will be protected, jobs will be created, and our nation will take another concrete step toward reducing air pollution and the emissions driving climate change.

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