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Colorado Leaders Hold Event Releasing Survey, Lifting Up Need for Investments in Energy Transmission to Build Back Better.

The BlueGreen Alliance today hosted EVs Are Coming: Strengthening Auto Manufacturing and Building Good Jobs in the Shift to Electric Vehicles, a discussion on the urgent policies and commitments needed to ensure that economic and employment benefits that will accompany the transition to EVs accrue to workers here.

The Committee on Ways and Means yesterday passed its budget reconciliation package, a broad piece of legislation that includes several tax credits supporting the deployment of clean energy and the growth of the nation’s clean technology manufacturing sector and supply chains. Critically, the bill has language to ensure these investments translate into good jobs and domestic manufacturing.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday passed its budget reconciliation package. The package funds critical infrastructure efforts such as fully replacing lead service lines, improving the energy efficiency of residential and public buildings, removing toxic chemicals from schools, modernizing hospitals, and expanding electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. In response to the passage of the package, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

As Congress debates efforts to boost economic recovery and build back better, U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) today joined labor, environmental, and faith leaders, and suburban elected officials at an event advocating for federal investments in Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). At the event, Rep. Phillips and advocates urged investments in future BRT lines to expand transit and economic opportunity.

Resilience Before Disaster: The Need to Build Equitable, Community-Driven Social Infrastructure, jointly released by APEN, SEIU California, and BlueGreen Alliance, makes the case for California to make long-term and deep investments in the resilience of its most vulnerable communities.

The Biden administration has announced the nomination of Brad Crabtree to serve as Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management within the U.S. Department of Energy. Crabtree currently serves as the Vice President, Carbon Management for the Great Plains Institute where he works to spearhead efforts around carbon capture and industrial innovation.In response to the announcement, BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director, Jason Walsh.

Governor Jared Polis, Senator John Hickenlooper, and Representative Joe Neguse joined Colorado labor and climate leaders at Union Station today to urge U.S. Congress to fund Colorado rail projects, transit projects, and electric vehicle infrastructure in the budget reconciliation and bipartisan infrastructure bills.

The time to act is now. The bipartisan infrastructure bill—called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)—is the start, not the end, of what we need to build back better. Congress must act boldly and invest the full $3.5 trillion in the Senate Build Back Better budget resolution to build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy. 

A letter from the BlueGreen Alliance to President Biden and Congressional leaders calls for a recovery that addresses our nation’s persistent and unacceptably high levels of income inequality by creating millions of high-quality jobs in clean manufacturing, clean energy, restoration and resilience, the care economy, and upgrading our infrastructure and buildings.

Labor and Environmental leaders joined Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL), Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV), and Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) today to call on Congress to make bold investments in the build back better budget that deliver for workers, communities, and climate change.