The BlueGreen Alliance sent a letter to House and Senate leaders urging them to undertake ambitious plans to rebuild and transform America’s infrastructure in surface transportation reauthorization

Vice President Kamala Harris today visited Milwaukee to tour the clean energy labs at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and participate in a roundtable on the research and development investments included in the American Jobs Plan. The plan, announced earlier this spring by President Joe Biden, is a massive economic recovery plan focused on rebuilding and modernizing the nation’s infrastructure and investing in domestic manufacturing and clean energy.

The U.S. Senate today voted to pass the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021. The bill authorizes funds for replacing lead service lines, reauthorizes the Drinking Water and Clean Water State Revolving Funds, makes permanent the Buy America provision in the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, starts a pilot program at the U.S. Environmental Protection agency for low-income water assistance, and authorizes funding for rural and disadvantaged communities.

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) today introduced the RECLAIM Act and a bill to reauthorize the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) reclamation fee. The RECLAIM Act would commit existing funds to clean up abandoned coal mines and spur economic development and diversification in impacted communities.

Yesterday evening as President Joe Biden spook to the nation during his first joint address to Congress this evening, we heard about his American Jobs Plan, a historic plan to invest in America and take steps to jumpstart our economy while addressing the three intersecting crises we face—climate change, income inequality, and racial injustice.

The BlueGreen Alliance appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments to inform the preparation by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) of an Environmental Impact statement (“EIS or “Draft EIS”) for the Ocean Wind Construction and Operations Plan (“COP”) submitted by Ørsted.

The United States Senate today voted to utilize the Congressional Review Act to reinstate regulations preventing unnecessary methane leaks in the oil and gas industry, which were rolled back by the Trump administration. In response the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

The BlueGreen Alliance sent a letter to the House Committee on Education and Labor in support of H.R. 604, Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act of 2021 (RRASA).

The BlueGreen Alliance appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments to inform the preparation by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) of an environmental assessment (EA) for the nearly 800,000 acres identified as Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) in the New York Bight.

In April, the BlueGreen Alliance submitted these comments to inform the preparation by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) of an environmental assessment (EA) for the nearly 800,000 acres identified as Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) in the New York Bight.

Walsh talked about how the Senate Finance Committee and U.S. tax code can play a critical role in addressing the climate crisis, creating good jobs, and injecting equity into our society as we work to rebuild our economy and recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. He concluded saying, “Through federal tax policy, we can make strategic…

The Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization today publicly released its first report to President Joe Biden laying out ways in which the administration can support the revitalization of communities impacted by energy transition.