The BlueGreen Alliance announced today that the New Jersey Work Environment Council (WEC) will join the national labor-environmental partnership as a New Jersey affiliate.

Together with CWA’s Speed Matters campaign, Sierra Club and Progressive States Network, the BlueGreen Alliance is working to make affordable high-speed Internet accessible to everyone. Read more about its economic and environmental benefits.

After the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, David Foster said it was a positive step toward ensuring the U.S. addresses its climate and energy challenges while shifting to a clean energy economy.

The partners of the BlueGreen Alliance sent a letter to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, urging them to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster after news that House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats reached consensus on international competitiveness provisions.

In May 2009, David Foster was received the inaugural Peter A.A. Berle Environmental Integrity Award for being a transformative force in bringing together the twin issues of social justice and environmental sustainability.

The BlueGreen Alliance today said that working people are the new faces of Earth Day, and that Congress must pass the Employee Free Choice Act to ensure jobs in the clean energy economy are good, family-supporting green jobs.

On Earth Day, BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as part of a panel on “Green Jobs and Economic Benefits.”

Director of Legislation and Intergovernmental Affairs Yvette Pena Lopes delivered testimony April 22 on behalf of Executive David Foster urging clean energy legislation in 2009 that creates good, family-sustaining green jobs.

The BlueGreen Alliance began running ads this week in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio entitled, “America Wants Green Jobs” to highlight working people in the green economy and to encourage strong climate change legislation in 2009.

The BlueGreen Alliance began running an ad this week in Indiana entitled, “America Wants Green Jobs” to highlight working people in the green economy and to encourage strong climate change legislation in 2009.

The BlueGreen Alliance began running an ad this week in Ohio entitled, “America Wants Green Jobs” to highlight working people in the green economy and to encourage strong climate change legislation in 2009.