A labor secretary needs to value the work of working people, strive to support the creation of quality, family-sustaining jobs, and advance and defend strong workplace healthy and safety protections.

Energy efficiency is a jobs driver in Minnesota’s growing clean economy. Our new analysis showed 15,000 direct jobs could be created or sustained by 2030 by reducing energy used in the state’s hospitals, universities, schools, and health care (M.U.S.H.) sector by 20 percent.

The BlueGreen Alliance’s Executive Director Kim Glas reacts to House passage of the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017.

Methane is the primary component of natural gas and it is much more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Natural gas distribution systems around the country are leaking methane. Repairing those leaks will create quality jobs for workers, while addressing climate change. Taking Stock: Opportunities and Challenges in California’s Natural Gas Distribution System reveals best practices for repairing and replacing leak-prone natural gas pipes in the state.

This issue brief provides a preview of research from the upcoming report Supplying Ingenuity II: U.S. Suppliers of Key Clean, Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Technologies due out in 2017.

The Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program is growing quality jobs around the country.

The turning point in the effort to ensure safe workplaces for refinery workers happened four years ago in Richmond, California. A pipe carrying fuel oil ruptured and released flammable vapors that ignited into a massive fireball. By sheer luck alone, 18 workers lived to tell the tale.

This report finds that full and continuing adoption of leak reducing technologies and practices at new and modified oil and gas facilities would suggest creation of over 50,000 jobs over a decade.

The Ford F-150 provides a concrete example of how America’s fuel economy standards are working to deliver fuel savings and carbon emissions reductions, while transforming automotive technology and rebuilding American jobs.

A summary of research and analysis of the impact of CAFE standards on job growth in the United States.

The Washington State BlueGreen Alliance released their policy principles that highlight what efforts they support to address climate change, create quality jobs, and ensure a just transition for workers impacted by America’s energy transition.

Repairing aging natural gas distribution pipelines has the potential to create and support quality, family-sustaining jobs and drive billions in investment. Accelerating the repair and replacement of this network can also address the urgent threat of climate change.