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Remembering BlueGreen Alliance Co-Founder Leo W. Gerard

Leo W. Gerard rejected the false choice between a clean environment and good jobs, building an influential force for change through the BlueGreen Alliance. We will honor him by upholding his ideals.

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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Sacrifices Coal Country for Politics

A new memo reveals that the Trump administration is quietly undermining coal communities, a constituency that largely supported his reelection.

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Preventing Heat-Related Illnesses

As heat-related deaths increase, much more needs to be done to protect workers from heat-related injuries and illnesses.

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Remembering BlueGreen Alliance Co-Founder Leo W. Gerard
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Sacrifices Coal Country for Politics
Preventing Heat-Related Illnesses

Educate

about the impacts of climate change and the job-creating opportunities of environmental protections.

Facilitate Dialogue

between environmentalists, union members and other stakeholders on shared goals.

Make Change

for good jobs, a clean environment, and a thriving and fair economy.

Americans don’t have to choose between creating good jobs and protecting the environment. We can and must do both.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

BGA is working to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by deploying all the tools at our disposal, from renewable energy technologies like onshore wind and solar, to growing and innovative technologies like offshore wind and direct air capture.

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Solidarity for Climate Action is our plan to put working people front and center as we create a new economy.

Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

U.S. manufacturing can be the cleanest and most innovative in the world, and that we can create and sustain high-quality jobs building the nation’s future.

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The BlueGreen Alliance’s manufacturing agenda proposes a set of national actions to achieve global leadership across clean technology manufacturing.

Fairness for Workers and Communities

The United States is in the middle of a transition to a new, cleaner economy, but an energy transition that is fair for workers and communities will not happen organically. We must ensure workers and communities aren't left behind.

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The BlueGreen Alliance National Energy Transition Policy Framework is a roadmap for policy makers to ensure workers and communities aren't left behind.

Infrastructure and Community Resilience

Decades of neglect have left our nation’s infrastructure in a state of disrepair. From our roads and bridges to our water systems, ports, public lands, and electric grid, repairing the nation’s infrastructure is a significant opportunity to create qu

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Buy Clean policies promote spending taxpayer dollars on infrastructure supplies for materials that are manufactured in a cleaner.

Equity and Health and Safe Communities

As a nation we are confronting the ongoing crises of economic inequality, racial injustice, climate change, and the impacts that these have on public health and the health of the environment.

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ChemHAT offers up easy to use information that we can use to protect ourselves, our families and our co-workers against the harm that chemicals can cause.

In the States

BGA’s state-level work has resulted in more than 100 wins in the form of strong climate and labor legislation, policy, regulatory, and implementation successes just since 2015.

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BGA led a coalition of labor, environmental groups, fisheries, and developers pushing for Oregon to require robust public engagement and strong labor standards for any future offshore wind development.

Let policymakers know you support Solidarity for Climate Action, our plan to put working people front and center as we create a new economy: one that values our work, our families, our communities, and our environment.

Take Action

Surface Transportation Reauthorization Recommendations

Nov 21, 2025

The BlueGreen Alliance strongly supports efforts to rebuild and modernize America’s transportation infrastructure through a 2026 surface transportation reauthorization agenda that prioritizes both workers and the climate. Surface transportation reauthorization provides a unique opportunity to boost the economy, create millions of jobs, enhance resilience, and better protect our communities from harmful pollution. Read our full recommendations in the comment letter below.

DOE Announces Agency Reorganization

Nov 20, 2025

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today its plans to reorganize the agency. This decision comes without any authorization from Congress and after a slew of clean energy project cancellations.