At an event in Cleveland, Sen. Sherrod Brown and panelists answered questions from the moderator and offered their perspective on how America can achieve fair trade deals now and in the future.

Over the past decade, the U.S. automotive industry has demonstrated that we can bring back American jobs and manufacturing and enhance industry competitiveness and profitability. American workers are building world-leading, popular vehicles that save consumers billions at the pump, enhance energy security, and cut pollution.

A state board unanimously approved new refinery safety rules in California that will make a real difference for tens of thousands of California workers and residents.

Methane is the primary component of natural gas and it is much more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Natural gas distribution systems around the country are leaking methane. Repairing those leaks will create quality jobs for workers, while addressing climate change. Taking Stock: Opportunities and Challenges in California’s Natural Gas Distribution System reveals best practices for repairing and replacing leak-prone natural gas pipes in the state.

The turning point in the effort to ensure safe workplaces for refinery workers happened four years ago in Richmond, California. A pipe carrying fuel oil ruptured and released flammable vapors that ignited into a massive fireball. By sheer luck alone, 18 workers lived to tell the tale.

Leaders from the BlueGreen Alliance and their allies today reacted to the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and urged Congress to vote “no” on the TPP.

After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan was officially published in the Federal Register, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Kim Glas

The BlueGreen Alliance weighs in on the effort to expand items included in the Environmental Goods Agreement being negotiated by the U.S. Trade Representative.

The BlueGreen Alliance’s Executive Director Kim Glas calls the finalized Trans-Pacific Partnership a missed opportunity to uphold high labor, environmental, and human rights standards.

In California, the BlueGreen Alliance worked with labor unions and environmental organizations to help enact SB 1371, which compels the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) to improve leak identification, repair, and avoidance, as well as better account for the climate change impact of natural gas leaks in the state’s natural gas distribution systems.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve Fast Track trade authority. After the bill passed with a vote of 218-208 BlueGreen Alliance’s Executive Director Kim Glas issued the following statement

Today’s vote against Trade Adjustment Assistance by the U.S. House of Representatives has blocked progress on Fast Track authority. BlueGreen Alliance’s Executive Director Kim Glas issued the following statement.