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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

When buildings are designed, built, and maintained to protect the health of people and the environment—and if the manufacturing of building products and materials create good-paying union jobs in the U.S.—then the wellbeing of people and communities will improve, especially for people of color. Building Clean works to increase the use of building products that are more efficient, less toxic, and manufactured in the U.S. We aim to improve the physical, environmental, and economic health of communities and promote a more equitable future for all.

Policy Priorities / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

Manufacturing towns dot the nation, and advanced manufacturing helps provide the foundation for the economy in major regions of the United States. Industries like the steel and automotive industries supported good-paying jobs, middle-class families, and prosperous communities for decades, while also spurring American leadership in innovation and technology. That’s still true in some areas. But in many others, factories have closed or new industries offer jobs that all too often are poorly paid, insecure, or unsafe.

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Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Biden-Harris Investments to Usher in New Era for Clean Energy in Wisconsin

President Biden traveled to Westby, Wisconsin today to announce an award from the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program. At the event, the president highlighted a New ERA investment funded by the Inflation Reduction Act that Dairyland Power Cooperative will use to grow solar and wind energy to supply power to utilities. New ERA is designed to help member-owned rural energy cooperatives transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy—creating good jobs for local workers and ensuring workers and communities aren’t left behind in the transition to cleaner, cheaper energy.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Biden-Harris Investments to Usher in New Era for Clean Energy in America

President Biden will travel to Westby, Wisconsin today to announce an award from the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program. At the event, the president is expected to highlight a New ERA investment funded by the Inflation Reduction Act that Dairyland Power Cooperative will use to grow solar energy efforts to supply power to utilities in a four-state area. New ERA is designed to help member-owned rural energy cooperatives transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy—creating good jobs for local workers and ensuring workers and communities aren’t left behind in the transition to cleaner, cheaper energy.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

Then and Now: US Manufacturing Under The Trump and Biden-Harris Administrations

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.

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