This toolkit is intended to represent policy responses to COVID-19 that can help workers affected by the coronavirus, using examples drawn from state executive orders and legislation.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill) today introduced a bill aimed at supporting communities and workers impacted by the nation’s transition to cleaner cheaper fuels. The bill, entitled “the Marshall Plan for Coal Country Act,” will provide healthcare for coal workers, establish a plan to stabilize coal communities’ economies when a plant or mine closes, and provides access to free higher education to coal workers and their families.

The Commonwealth of Virginia’s Safety and Health Code Board today adopted an emergency temporary standard to address COVID-19 hazards for all employees and employers under the jurisdiction of the Virginia Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) program.

Former Vice President Joe Biden today released a sweeping plan to address climate change, create and sustain good, union jobs for workers, and invest in disadvantaged communities and workers. Following the announcement, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:

A broad plan rebuild American manufacturing was released today by Joe Biden. Following the announcement, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R.2, the Moving Forward Act, a comprehensive package that makes significant investments in rebuilding and modernizing the nation’s infrastructure with strong labor and procurement standards to ensure that American tax dollars support American manufacturing and good jobs.

Congress continues to debate moving comprehensive infrastructure repair investments as a way to spur economic growth and the creation of good-paying jobs during the COVID-19 crisis.

Our nation’s drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure is vital to the protection, treatment, and distribution of clean water resources.

The U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis today unveiled its long-awaited committee report. The report represents the culmination of more than a year of investigation into solutions to the ongoing climate crisis including through public hearings and a public request for information.

Alongside the BlueGreen Alliance and partners and allies from coal communities across the country, Just Transition Fund today released the National Economic Transition platform. The platform is the product of a year-long collaboration, bringing together local, tribal, and labor leaders with public, private, and non-profit partners to develop a policy framework and priorities to invest in communities and workers hit hard by the decline of the coal industry.

Leaders from the BlueGreen Alliance—a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations—today released a national agenda to rebuild American manufacturing, cut pollution, and create and sustain the good-paying jobs necessary to rebuild the middle class and help fix America’s beleaguered economy.

The BlueGreen Alliance’s manufacturing agenda proposes a set of national actions to achieve global leadership across clean technology manufacturing; cut emissions from the production of essential materials; upgrade and modernize the entirety of the U.S. industrial base within three decades; and undertake a new generation of industrial development that rebuilds good American jobs and is clean, safe, and fair for workers and communities alike.