The BlueGreen Alliance submitted comments on the draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for wind energy development in the New York Bight.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled updated guidance for the energy community tax bonus included in the Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized its updated multipollutant vehicle emissions standards for cars and light trucks in model years 2027 through 2032. 

As community leaders and elected officials work to unlock billions in federal funding to reduce climate pollution, the BlueGreen Alliance has released a new user guide. Job Quality and Community Benefits in the Climate Pollution Reduction Implementation Grants: A User Guide breaks down the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), offering information on how to meet application criteria and how to create high-quality jobs, engage communities, and develop community benefits. 

The trucking industry lobby has a long history of working to obstruct this kind of regulatory progression. But as we’ll see here, in the third and final part of this series, the typical arguments against truck standards are rife with misinformation, and must be taken with a grain of salt. Here we will correct three of the most commonly repeated claims about the supposed dangers of adopting strong clean truck standards, and set the record straight.

In Part Two of this series we we summarize the key insights from recent research, and explain how it can inform our vision of what a just transition to EVs should look like. In short, better analytical tools for industrial processes demonstrate that EV manufacturing requires as many, if not more, labor hours than ICE vehicle manufacturing, and that these labor hours are concentrated in the manufacturing of complex EV battery components. This underscores the importance of securing a competitive domestic supply chain for EVs and their key components, powered by high quality, community-sustaining, union jobs.

Our aim in this series is to counteract misinformation and to correct the record on how clean vehicle standards can contribute to the creation and protection of high-quality, union, auto manufacturing jobs. Here, in the first part of the series, we explain how clean vehicle standards can help to support workers, improve public health, and safeguard the environment.

With the right implementation, the Manufacturing Capital Connector (MCC) could be a critical pathway through which the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) can support domestic manufacturing growth and industrial decarbonization, while creating good union jobs, re-shoring clean technology supply chains, and delivering public health and environmental benefits to the workers and communities that need it most. 

The BlueGreen Alliance (BGA) provided comments on the effort of Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) to protect Maryland’s workers from heat stress. 

The White House, alongside the U.S. Departments of Transportation (DOT) and Energy (DOE), today released information regarding the nation’s strategy for electrifying freight corridors. Federally funded electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure is required to meet Buy America requirements, supporting domestic manufacturing of charging and other alternative fueling technology. 

President Joe Biden this evening delivered the annual State of the Union speech. In his speech, President Biden commented on the importance of strong unions and reiterated his support for the fight for workers’ rights and laid out a positive vision for the future of our country.  Following the president’s speech, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

The BlueGreen Alliance submitted comments on the Department of Treasury’s exemptions for the domestic content provisions associated with elective pay.