An analysis of the Colorado Office of Just Transition and its impact on communities and implementation of worker support since it opened in 2021. The report reviews the Office’s actions to date, identifies challenges and barriers to success, and provides recommendations for how it can continue to meet its objective of providing tangible support to coal transition workers and communities.

Today the BlueGreen Alliance hosted a webinar called Forging Ahead: Investing in Domestic Clean Aluminum in partnership with the Sustainable Aluminum Network. Government officials, union representatives, environmental experts, and industry representatives across the United States heard leading industrial manufacturing experts discuss the Inflation Reduction Act and its transformative power to restore the aluminum supply chain…

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today released its plan to invest $2 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act on substantially lower embodied carbon in some common construction materials.

Ørsted, a Denmark-based leader in the offshore wind industry, announced Tuesday that it has backed out of two projects planned off the coast of New Jersey. The projects, Ocean Wind 1 and 2, would have been the first such projects in New Jersey. 

Corporations have an unfair advantage over sovereign nations under many trade and investment agreements. Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), embedded in numerous trade and investment agreements, has created a global governance regime that prioritizes corporate rights over those of governments, people, and the planet. The labor, environmental, faith, consumer, and other civil society organizations signed below appreciate that you have followed through on your promise and have not pursued new trade and investment agreements with the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system.

 The Inflation Reduction Act expanded the availability of clean energy tax credits so that tax-exempt entities like public and non-profit hospitals can receive “direct pay” (also known as “elective pay”). In simple terms, direct pay allows such entities to recoup a significant portion of a clean energy project’s cost as a tax-free cash payment from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Building healthier schools is within reach. Up to half the cost of a clean energy project at your school could be refunded to the district under the federal Inflation Reduction Act. Tax-exempt entities such as public schools can receive “direct pay” (also known as “elective pay”). In simple terms, direct pay lets school districts recoup a significant portion of a clean energy project’s cost as a cash payment from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The EPA estimates that 177 million people in the United States live close enough to an industrial facility to be harmed by a chemical release, fire, or explosion. That is more than half the U.S. population and what’s more, that risk falls disproportionately on low-income and communities of color.

Offshore wind energy presents a unique and integral opportunity to accomplish this mission if developed in a way that uplifts the middle class with high-road employment practices, equitable career pathways, maximum job creation, and creation of a domestic supply chain. We appreciate the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)’s concerted effort to achieve the Biden-Harris…

The BlueGreen Alliance recently submitted comments to the U.S. Department of the Treasury in response to a proposed rule related to prevailing wage and registered apprenticeship standards associated with the clean energy tax credits passed in the historic Inflation Reduction Act.

The BlueGreen Alliance joined more than 150 undersigned water associations, environmental, low-income, other public interest advocates, and labor unions to urge Congress to provide FY24 funding for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Low Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP).

The environmental and labor partners of the BlueGreen Alliance understand that we don’t have to choose between good jobs and a clean environment.  We can and must have both.  It’s a false choice when companies claim they can’t pay workers family-supporting wages and at the same time manufacture EVs at a scale and pace to mee the climate moment.  Yes they can.