The BlueGreen Alliance, a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations, today announced that the organization has endorsed Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) for reelection to the U.S. Senate. 

This Labor Day the BlueGreen Alliance, a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations, announced that the organization has endorsed Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) for reelection to the U.S. Senate.

The Bluegreen Alliance today released a new report, Then and Now: US Manufacturing Under the Trump and Biden-Harris Administrations, which compares the success and failures of the last two administrations’ manufacturing agendas.

Taking a critical look at the industrial policies of the current Biden-Harris administration and the former Trump administration, we see a dramatic shift. On several points—including job creation, investment in manufacturing, investment in cleaning up industrial emissions, and domestic momentum in growing industries—we see that the Biden-Harris administration outperformed the Trump administration.

Today marks two years since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law—a historic investment in clean energy and manufacturing. The law is working across the nation to create good-paying, union jobs in clean energy and manufacturing for the workers and communities that need them the most, while reducing the emissions driving climate change.

It has been months since 2017’s historic hurricane season laid waste to Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Texas, and Florida, in some areas destroying critical infrastructure systems, plunging millions of Americans into darkness, and further aggravating an already desperate need for safe water.

The U.S. Department of the Interior auctioned off the two Central Atlantic Wind Energy Areas. These areas are near the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia and can harness enough wind energy to power 2.2 million homes.  

The Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program helps rural Americans transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy. A completed Community Benefits Plan (CBP) is required for any New ERA award allocation. This is a fact sheet that focuses on what BGA a New ERA CBP should include. 

The BlueGreen Alliance (BGA) enthusiastically endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for vice president today.

On behalf of the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), our partners, and the millions of members and supporters they represent, we thank the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for the opportunity to comment on the draft environmental assessment (EA) for the Gulf of Maine. In the following document, we make several recommendations for preparing the final EA. To summarize, we strongly urge BOEM to provide details related to creating high-quality union jobs; training and employment benefits; domestic supply chains; ensuring environmental justice; and environmental protection.

Decarbonization pathways can be an important step in securing the future of well-paid, U.S. manufacturing jobs in a net-zero economy—ensuring the longevity and competitiveness of some of the nation’s most important industries. With the right focus, this vision study can be a critical pathway through which DOE can detail how it intends to support domestic manufacturing growth and industrial decarbonization, while creating and preserving good union jobs, re-shoring clean technology supply chains, and delivering public health and environmental benefits to the workers and communities that need it most. To this end, BGA offers the following responses to the U.S. Department of Energy’s request for information.

These comments reflect the BlueGreen Alliance’s shared goals and partner goals to ensure that the most State Revolving Fund support goes to areas with the greatest lead burden and overall disadvantage, and increasing capacity and community engagement as necessary to these ends and as goods in themselves. Read our full letter to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to learn more.