Our Better Buildings Approach is a framework built to optimize the climate, health, equity, and job creation potential that the buildings sector represents.

By investing to grow clean energy and modernize our grid; repair our failing roads, bridges, and water systems; improve the efficiency and health of our buildings; and transform our transportation systems, we can boost our economy and create millions of good jobs while also reducing pollution, combatting climate change, and making our communities healthier and safer. 

All sectors of society must take action to reduce emissions to limit the disastrous impacts climate change is causing our communities and part of the pathway to limiting warming will include carbon management technologies. We can rapidly reduce emissions and simultaneously develop and deploy responsible carbon management and we must do both. 

Oregon State Governor Tina Kotek signed House Bill 3332 into law at an event today, reinforcing Oregon’s commitment to local industries and cleaner infrastructure by championing domestically-produced iron and steel in public projects. The new law includes a grant initiative to support small businesses as they work to meet Oregon’s strong domestic production benchmarks.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced $100 million in grants to help manufacturers track and disclose the emissions associated with the production of materials and products used in infrastructure projects. This will help private and public sector purchasers know which materials are made in the most climate-friendly way.

Today the BlueGreen Alliance hosted a webinar called “Game Changer: The Inflation Reduction Act and Clean Manufacturing.” Government officials, union representatives, environmental experts, industry representatives, and others across the U.S. heard leading climate and labor experts discuss the Inflation Reduction Act and its promise to revitalize industrial manufacturing.  

One-term President Donald Trump is traveling to Detroit to feed his own ego while striking United Auto Worker (UAW) members are fighting for fair wages, an end to the inequitable tier system, and a union-built electric vehicle (EV) future. In a clear display of Trump’s lack of respect for the striking workers, he will be speaking at a non-union facility. In advance of Trump’s trip, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

In response to an invitation from United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain, President Joe Biden today joined striking auto workers on the picket line outside Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, MI. This is believed to be the first time a sitting president has joined striking workers on a picket line, providing major credence…

Following the announcement that United Steelworkers (USW) International President and BlueGreen Alliance Co-Chair Tom Conway has passed away, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

Our Appalachian Regional Organizer, Dan Taylor, and our Senior Policy Advisor, Brennen Cain, penned a blog for Reimagine Appalachia on how the clean energy tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act are setting the stage for a unionized clean economy. 

New analysis by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst commissioned by the BlueGreen Alliance and National Skills Coalition estimates that the combined investments in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Inflation Reduction Act, and CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS) will support nearly 3 million jobs per year over the life span of the laws.

The new report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst estimates that the combined investments in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Inflation Reduction Act, and CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS) will support nearly 3 million jobs per year and 19 million job-years over their lifetime.