Wearing green hardhats, Governor Ted Strickland and Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy joined labor, environmental and community leaders to raise a wind turbine on the front lawn of the Statehouse in Columbus.

On September 13, a Madison green jobs rally featured information about job opportunities in the emerging green economy.

Green Jobs for Steel City, September 9 in Pittsburgh, brought together about 130 people to discuss the new report, Green Recovery, which showed that Pennsylvania could gain 86,000 jobs with a rapid green investment in our nation’s economy.

The state of Pennsylvania could gain 86,000 jobs with a rapid investment in the green economy, according to a report released at a Scranton press conference on September 9.

A new report released today shows that the United States can create 2 million jobs over two years by investing in a rapid green economic recovery program.

This report by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) shows a rapid investment in six global warming strategies will create nearly 2 million jobs in two years.

In September, the BlueGreen Alliance brought together local leaders in the Lehigh Valley to discuss the future of green jobs.

The New Apollo Program will accelerate the development of the nation’s vast clean energy resources and move us toward energy security, climate stability, and economic prosperity.

In August 2008, Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz joined the BlueGreen Alliance in kicking off the Clean Energy Bus Tour of Philadelphia.

In August 2008, the BlueGreen Alliance organized a bus tour of clean energy solutions at work in Bucks County.

As the unemployment rate reached a four-year high, and after Congress failed this week to extend essential renewable energy tax credits, the BlueGreen Alliance said today that the U.S. is missing an enormous opportunity to create middle-class green jobs.

On August 8, labor and environmental advocates came together for a Clean Energy and Global Solutions Tour in Pittsburgh.