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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 / Fairness for Workers and Communities

Trump Scrambles to Try to Rescue Van Orden from the Consequences of His Own Votes

With Van Orden’s support, the Trump administration has rolled back the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), which would have helped lower electricity bill costs for farmers at a time when utility bills are skyrocketing. Additionally, the actions of the Trump administration and GOP Congress—including Rep. Van Orden—have driven costs up across the economy for everything from healthcare to electricity to gasoline. 

Reports & Fact Sheets / Fairness for Workers and Communities

Engaging with the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance

In 2006, a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses that purchase minerals and metals, labor unions, affected communities, and mining companies came together, with support from philanthropy, to create the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA). The goal was to establish a “multi-stakeholder and independently verified responsible mining assurance system that improves social and environmental…

Press Releases & Statements / Water Infrastructure

New Documentary Exposes Federal Funding Cliff at the End of 2026, Wisconsin’s Push to Replace All Lead Pipes

The Avalon Atmospheric Theater transformed from a classic cinema house into a hub for public health advocacy for the premiere of The Fight for Progress: Wisconsin’s Push for Lead Pipe Replacement. Produced jointly by Wisconsin Conservation Voters and the BlueGreen Alliance, the 30-minute documentary moves past the headlines to show the human and economic reality of lead service line replacement. 

Press Releases & Statements / Support for Impacted Workers

The Trump Administration Quietly Delays the Silica Rule, Continuing to Expose Miners to Toxic Dust

Early this week, federal regulators quietly delayed the implementation of the Silica Rule indefinitely. The Silica Rule was created to protect workers from high levels of silica dust—a significant contributor to black lung disease and silicosis, both incurable respiratory illnesses caused by breathing in toxic dust. The delay of this rule will result in workers continuing to be exposed to high levels of this dangerous substance.

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