The EPA has a unique opportunity through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to deliver meaningful, lasting benefits in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released new guidance for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements included in the Inflation Reduction Act. The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law in August, includes—for the first time—high-road labor standards that go hand-in-hand with clean energy deployment. Specifically, to receive the full value of the tax credit, developers will have to pay a prevailing wage and utilize a certain percentage of registered apprentices in the projects. The guidance released today provides further details of how those requirements will work.

As the Senate and House focuses on the final work period of this Congress, the BlueGreen Alliance urged House and Senate leadership to swiftly bring up the reauthorization of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program.Trade Adjustment Assistance is a lifeline for workers displaced from their jobs by unfair trade policies, offering trade-impacted workers a variety of supports including income support, a health coverage tax credit, and training, education, and job search assistance.

We are at a groundbreaking moment for this legislation as the Department of Treasury begins work to implement the centerpiece of this law: the new and strengthened clean energy tax credits. These tax credits have the potential to create good jobs for workers and transform communities and the clean economy.

We applaud the U.S. Treasury Department for initiating a robust set of requests for comments regarding their implementation.

These tax credits present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to drastically reduce emissions while providing good union jobs in the clean economy and driving growth in U.S. manufacturing. At the same time, they will increase equity in the transition to a clean economy by maximizing the benefits of this job growth in communities disproportionately impacted by energy transition.

The BlueGreen Alliance, a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations, announced today that the organization has endorsed 44 candidates in U.S. House and Senate races across the country. The endorsement is a recognition that the incumbents and challengers are leaders in the efforts to create good-paying union jobs, fight economic and racial injustice, and reduce pollution that harms communities and workers as well as drives climate change.

The BlueGreen Alliance, a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations, today announced the organization has endorsed Brendan Boyle for Pennsylvania’s Second Congressional District. 

The BlueGreen Alliance, a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations, today announced the organization has endorsed Speaker Nancy Pelosi for California’s 12th Congressional District. 

New data commissioned by the BlueGreen Alliance released today revealed the Inflation Reduction Act may create more than 40,000 jobs over the next 10 years in Nevada.

New data commissioned by the BlueGreen Alliance released today revealed the Inflation Reduction Act may create more than 200,000 jobs over the next 10 years in Pennsylvania. 

New data commissioned by the BlueGreen Alliance released today revealed the Inflation Reduction Act may create 99,124  jobs over the next 10 years in Colorado.