Following May unemployment news, and recent indications that the Senate will move comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation in July, the BlueGreen Alliance said today that passing this legislation will create millions of clean energy jobs.

Members of the Ironworkers are literally building the framework for a cleaner energy future in Minnesota at the St. John’s Solar Farm near Collegeville, Minnesota.

After President Obama visited the Gulf Coast on May 28, BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster said the disaster should sound as a clarion call to Congress that it is time to embrace the clean energy economy.

The BlueGreen Alliance lauded President Barack Obama’s announcement that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation to develop a national emissions standard for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

Hundreds of local unions and members around the country have signed a resolution urging action on comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation.

The BlueGreen Alliance’s fact sheet on the economic and social impacts of illegal logging in Indonesia.

The BlueGreen Alliance urged the Senate to move forward to immediately strengthen and pass the American Power Act.

BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster sent this letter to members of Congress urging them to pass the HOME STAR Energy Retrofit Act of 2010.

Hundreds of people went to Capitol Hill today to lobby members of Congress for comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation, chemicals reform and clean transportation as part of Green Jobs Advocacy Day.

This report shows that investments in America’s freight rail system would create thousands of green jobs, improve the country’s infrastructure, reduce dependence on foreign oil and lower carbon emissions.

Full Speed Ahead estimates that 7,800 green jobs are created for every $1 billion of freight rail capital investment.

This report by Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families said “the U.S. has the opportunity to prevent rising rates of chronic disease and reduce health care costs by overhauling federal chemical chemical policy.