More than 100 prominent labor and environmental organizations asked U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to enforce a law encouraging worker and union participation during inspections of facilities using extremely hazardous substances.

Six major environmental organizations sent this letter to the Senate in December outlining their desire for climate legislation that prevents carbon pollution leakage and ensures international competitiveness.

The BlueGreen Alliance and New Jersey Work Environment Council called on Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to enforce an existing law encouraging worker and union participation in workplace health and safety inspections.

The BlueGreen Alliance held several events throughout the COP 15 meetings in Copenhagen. Check out the attached flyer for more information.

Sara Eagle is President of UAW Local 1002 in Michigan. She works at a production facility building solar and EnergyStar water heaters.

Minnesota could gain 18,000 manufacturing jobs by passing a 25 percent by 2025 Renewable Electricity Standard, according to labor and environmental leaders who gathered to call on Congress to pass comprehensive climate change legislation.

Highlighting a report showing that Pennsylvania could gain 42,000 manufacturing jobs by passing a 25 percent by 2025 Renewable Electricity Standard (RES), labor and environmental leaders today called on Congress to pass comprehensive climate change legislation that creates clean energy manufacturing jobs in the United States.

Michigan could gain 34,000 manufacturing jobs by passing a 25 percent by 2025 Renewable Electricity Standard, according to labor and environmental leaders who gathered to call on Congress to pass comprehensive climate change legislation.

The BlueGreen Alliance will begin running a television ad tomorrow in Pennsylvania to thank Senator Arlen Specter for his vote to move clean energy legislation forward in the U.S. Senate.

Alcoa talks about the importance of the BlueGreen Alliance and building a clean economy in the United States.

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown joined the BlueGreen Alliance today to discuss policy recommendations made in a new report aimed at creating hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs through development of a clean energy economy in the United States.

Building on a June 2009 report highlighting the number of jobs that could be created as a result of a 25 percent by 2025 Renewable Electricity Standard, the BlueGreen Alliance made a set of policy recommendations aimed at maximizing manufacturing jobs.