The U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis today unveiled its long-awaited committee report. The report represents the culmination of more than a year of investigation into solutions to the ongoing climate crisis including through public hearings and a public request for information.

Alongside the BlueGreen Alliance and partners and allies from coal communities across the country, Just Transition Fund today released the National Economic Transition platform. The platform is the product of a year-long collaboration, bringing together local, tribal, and labor leaders with public, private, and non-profit partners to develop a policy framework and priorities to invest in communities and workers hit hard by the decline of the coal industry.

Leaders from the BlueGreen Alliance—a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations—today released a national agenda to rebuild American manufacturing, cut pollution, and create and sustain the good-paying jobs necessary to rebuild the middle class and help fix America’s beleaguered economy.

The BlueGreen Alliance’s manufacturing agenda proposes a set of national actions to achieve global leadership across clean technology manufacturing; cut emissions from the production of essential materials; upgrade and modernize the entirety of the U.S. industrial base within three decades; and undertake a new generation of industrial development that rebuilds good American jobs and is clean, safe, and fair for workers and communities alike.

Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives today unveiled new, economic-recovery focused legislation to rebuild America’s infrastructure and boost American manufacturing called the Moving Forward Act.

Poll Examines Attitudes of Voters Toward Donald Trump’s Attack on the Environment and Putting America Back on a Path to Economic Recovery

White working-class voters in the Midwest were a critical component of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016. However, a new poll of 752 white working-class voters released by the BlueGreen Alliance tells the story of a new landscape.

In response to the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police in recent days, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

BlueGreen Alliance’s SafeJobChecklist.org Will Give Workers Access to Safety Information, Confidential Method to Report Conditions

The BlueGreen Alliance and partners wrote to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, thanking them for their leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and urging them to implement policy recommendations to keep workers as safe as steps are taken to reopen the economy.

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the HEROES Act, a bill responding to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. Meanwhile in the Senate, Senator McConnell has called for a “pause” on legislative response action.

Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives today introduced the HEROES Act, the next phase of legislation to address the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.