Community, labor and environmental leaders today joined Congressman Sam Farr at the nation’s 10,000th LEED-certified commercial project in order to support President Obama’s American Jobs Act. The Act will create millions of good jobs across America.

Modernizing and greening California’s schools will create thousands of good jobs and improve the educational environment for students, according to California State Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and Carl Pope.

The Apollo Alliance Project of the BlueGreen Alliance presented the Right Stuff Awards to Denise Fairchild, Inaugural President of the Emerald Cities Collaborative and California-based Applied Materials.

In advance of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Cancun, the BlueGreen Alliance outlined its priorities for an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

During the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, the BlueGreen Alliance held a labor-environmental reception December 5 and a side event on our unique “blue-green” partnership at the World of Work (WoW) Pavilion December 7.

After California voters defeated Proposition 23 on Election Day, the BlueGreen Alliance said that this was a clear victory for clean energy.

Citing the state’s high unemployment rate and the urgent need to make the environment cleaner and safer, Latino labor and environmental leaders today held a press teleconference to call on voters in California to vote no on Proposition 23.

In the lead up to the state’s vote on Proposition 23, Latino leaders held a press tele-conference call to urge opposition to measure, which would repeal landmark clean energy jobs and clean air legislation.

The BlueGreen Alliance welcomed a finding by U.S. International Trade Commission that dumped and subsidized coated paper products from China and Indonesia are threatening to injure U.S. producers.

After the release of the California unemployment statistics for September, BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster said the state could not afford to turn away the good clean energy jobs AB32 will create.

After the USTR announced they would initiate an investigation into China’s acts, policies and practices affecting green technologies, the BlueGreen Alliance said this move underscores the urgency of moving toward a clean energy infrastructure.

Citing California’s leadership in clean energy investments and the need to solve the state’s job crisis, union leaders, solar energy industry officials, and leading venture capitalists today came together to urge Californians to vote no on Prop 23.