The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program plays a critical role in rebuilding U.S. manufacturing and to date has created or saved more than 38,000 direct manufacturing jobs.

To build a strong competitive modern economy its not enough just to use the latest, best, cleanest technology, we also have to invest in people, plants, and technology. That’s what the Department of Energy’s ATVM program is doing around the country.

Around the country, companies are taking steps to become more energy efficient and produce less of the pollution driving climate change. The Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference is proud to have two of it sponsors recognized forr their climate leadership.

The BlueGreen Alliance lauds President Barack Obama for making the Pullman area of Chicago—the site of the Pullman Palace Car Company’s planned industrial town where workers made sleeper cars for rail passengers—a national monument.

The BlueGreen Alliance responds to the White House’s proposed budget announcement that includes a transition package to increase federal resources and programs for workers and communities in the energy industry.

The BlueGreen Alliance and the Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) released a groundbreaking new report illustrating the breadth of the U.S. transit and passenger rail manufacturing footprint.

Passenger Rail & Transit Rail Manufacturing in the U.S. from the Environment Law and Policy Center and the BlueGreen Alliance shows transit and passenger rail systems support extensive manufacturing businesses and jobs across the country.

Rep. Pocan and members of the BlueGreen Alliance today urged Members of Congress to ask tough questions of U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman about the administration’s support of Trade Promotion Authority, also known as fast track.

In reaction to the president’s State of the Union speech, the BlueGreen Alliance’s Executive Director Kim Glas released the following statement.

Before the President Obama delivers his State of the Union address, the BlueGreen Alliance is putting forward five priorities for 2015 to create quality, family-sustaining jobs and protect the environment.

The Obama administration announced an ambitious goal of reducing methane emissions up to 45 percent by 2025. Achieving the administration’s goal could save the natural gas equivalent to 33 million tons of carbon pollution per year.

President Obama kicked off a three-day trip with a visit to a Ford plant in Detroit yesterday.The lede that has been buried about this comeback is that we’re making landmark steps forward on the environment and energy security.