Voters see legislation as opportunity for job growth, technological leadership, and emissions reductions

A new survey of voters in Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, and West Virginia reveals support for the Build Back Better plan—the broad economic, infrastructure, care economy, and climate crisis package currently being considered by Congress. Specifically the survey found that more than half of voters in these states are in favor of the package, which would…

Survey Finds Broad Public Support in Arizona to Pass Build Back Better to Rebuild Middle Class, Bring Back Good Jobs to America.

Voters see opportunity for job growth, technological leadership, infrastructure improvement and modernization.

Colorado Leaders Hold Event Releasing Survey, Lifting Up Need for Investments in Energy Transmission to Build Back Better.

Resilience Before Disaster: The Need to Build Equitable, Community-Driven Social Infrastructure, jointly released by APEN, SEIU California, and BlueGreen Alliance, makes the case for California to make long-term and deep investments in the resilience of its most vulnerable communities.

Governor Jared Polis, Senator John Hickenlooper, and Representative Joe Neguse joined Colorado labor and climate leaders at Union Station today to urge U.S. Congress to fund Colorado rail projects, transit projects, and electric vehicle infrastructure in the budget reconciliation and bipartisan infrastructure bills.

The time to act is now. The bipartisan infrastructure bill—called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)—is the start, not the end, of what we need to build back better. Congress must act boldly and invest the full $3.5 trillion in the Senate Build Back Better budget resolution to build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy. 

A letter from the BlueGreen Alliance to President Biden and Congressional leaders calls for a recovery that addresses our nation’s persistent and unacceptably high levels of income inequality by creating millions of high-quality jobs in clean manufacturing, clean energy, restoration and resilience, the care economy, and upgrading our infrastructure and buildings.

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.