After the Senate failed to pass the America Jobs Act, BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster called it yet another missed opportunity to revitalize our economy and put people to work building a more efficient and competitive United States.

The BlueGreen Alliance urged House Judiciary Committee members to oppose the Managers Amendment to H.R. 3010, which would result in considerable threat to environmental standards, workplace safety rules, public health and financial reform regulation.

The Sheet Metal Workers’ Training Center in Michigan was dedicated in 1977 and had the first “straight” air solar heating system in the state.

The BlueGreen Alliance announced today that the United Association of Plumbers/Pipefitters joined the unique labor-environmental partnership.

With no end in sight to the jobs crisis, unemployed workers and local residents gathered in Monroe, MI today to call on elected officials to invest in infrastructure to create good-paying construction jobs and jumpstart Michigan’s economy.

Community, labor and environmental leaders today joined Congressman Sam Farr at the nation’s 10,000th LEED-certified commercial project in order to support President Obama’s American Jobs Act. The Act will create millions of good jobs across America.

Today, Congressman Pete Visclosky and labor and environmental leaders from the BlueGreen Alliance rallied to support investments and policies that will keep and grow jobs in Indiana, such as President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act.

Modernizing and greening California’s schools will create thousands of good jobs and improve the educational environment for students, according to California State Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and Carl Pope.

After the Senate failed to advance the American Jobs Act, BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster said that the Senate must move forward with this bill and demonstrate that Washington is indeed committed to solving the nation’s jobs crisis.

After the Labor Department reported that the U.S. gained more than 100,000 jobs in September, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director David Foster saying that Congress must get to work on the American Jobs Act.

The American Jobs Act will create thousands of sorely-needed jobs and improve the educational environment for students by modernizing schools, according to representatives from BGA, Education Minnesota, LIUNA, and the Minnesota Conservation Federation.

David Foster says, “The House today passed the TRAIN Act, a bill that throws our country in reverse and does nothing to create good jobs. While millions of Americans are searching for work, House Republicans are curtailing our environmental protections.”