The House of Representatives today passed a $3.5 billion budget framework, mirroring action by the Senate in recent weeks.

Labor and Environmental leaders joined Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL), Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV), and Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) today to call on Congress to make bold investments in the build back better budget that deliver for workers, communities, and climate change.  

Today, the BlueGreen Alliance and the League of Conservation Voters held a press conference at Flagstaff High School featuring Flagstaff City Mayor Paul Deasy, a representative from the Office of Congressmember Tom O’Halleran, a school district facilities professional, community leaders, and advocates to call on Congress to act now to support a reconciliation budget bill that will fund the bold climate investments to help states, cities, and school districts expand clean energy to address the climate crisis.

Today, the BlueGreen Alliance—an organization that unites labor unions and environmental organizations to solve today’s environmental challenges in ways that create and maintain quality jobs and build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy—released a new video advertisement uplifting the voices of workers from across the country.

America’s energy transition is well underway, but a transition that is fair for workers and communities isn’t something that will happen organically. Prioritizing and targeting federal resources to workers and communities in places impacted by this shift must be a deliberate choice.

Today, the United States Senate passed the bipartisan Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act, a $550 billion investment negotiated between the White House and a bipartisan group of Senators.

Senate Democrats today released a $3.5 trillion budget resolution that will invest in many priorities not included in the proposed bipartisan infrastructure bill.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released its sixth assessment report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. The report warns that the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit on warming is in serious danger of being surpassed and that the globe could very well surpass the 2°C limit as well.

The BlueGreen Alliance released Making Clean Deliver: Improving Clean Energy Job Quality and Growing the Clean Energy Manufacturing Supply Chain in the United States today, which outlines the necessity to ensure a strong domestic supply chain of materials and technologies that will power the transition to a clean economy, as well as create good, union jobs for the workers who will build the clean economy.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) today introduced the Get Toxic Substances Out of Schools Act, which establishes coordination between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Education to remove toxic substances such as lead and asbestos.

Today the world lost a powerful and passionate voice for workers. Richard Trumka began his career fighting for the rights of mineworkers and rose to lead the nation’s largest labor organization, where he helped lift up the voices of working people to ensure that their work was fairly compensated and their jobs were safe and healthy.

The Biden administration is expected to issue an executive order laying out clean vehicle standards for 2023-2026, setting a target for sales of EVs by 2030, and announcing the development of clean vehicle standards through 2030.