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Building Clean: Buy Local, Buy Healthy

The Energy Efficiency Products Database is supported by the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation and it highlights a broad range of energy efficiency housing products and forms part of a larger national initiative to accelerate the retrofit of multifamily, low-income facilities.

Good 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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Letters / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Letter Urges Including American Energy Worker Opportunity Act in Build Back Better

In a new letter to Senate Majority Leader Shumer (D-NY) and Chair Wyden (D-OR) members of the BlueGreen Alliance urged them to ensure the budget reconciliation package includes targeted funding for dislocated energy workers. The letter said, “America’s energy transition is well underway, but a transition that is fair for workers and communities isn’t something that will happen organically. Prioritizing and targeting federal resources to workers and communities in places impacted by this shift must be a deliberate choice.”

Research / For America, By America

New Survey of Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, and West Virginia Voters Reveals Support for Build Back Better

A new survey of voters in Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, and West Virginia reveals support for the Build Back Better plan—the broad economic, infrastructure, care economy, and climate crisis package currently being considered by Congress. Specifically the survey found that more than half of voters in these states are in favor of the package, which would…

Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Ways and Means Reconciliation Package Provides Important Clean Energy and Manufacturing Tax Credits, including Critical Labor and Domestic Content Provisions, but Room for Improvement Remains

The Committee on Ways and Means yesterday passed its budget reconciliation package, a broad piece of legislation that includes several tax credits supporting the deployment of clean energy and the growth of the nation’s clean technology manufacturing sector and supply chains. Critically, the bill has language to ensure these investments translate into good jobs and domestic manufacturing.

Clean Vehicles and Fuels

Energy and Commerce Reconciliation Package Makes Great Strides to Improve Critical Infrastructure, Gaps Remain

The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday passed its budget reconciliation package. The package funds critical infrastructure efforts such as fully replacing lead service lines, improving the energy efficiency of residential and public buildings, removing toxic chemicals from schools, modernizing hospitals, and expanding electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. In response to the passage of the package, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure

U.S. Rep. Phillips Joins Labor, Environmental, and Faith Leaders, and Suburban Elected Officials to Call for Investment in Bus Rapid Transit to Build Back Better

As Congress debates efforts to boost economic recovery and build back better, U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) today joined labor, environmental, and faith leaders, and suburban elected officials at an event advocating for federal investments in Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). At the event, Rep. Phillips and advocates urged investments in future BRT lines to expand transit and economic opportunity.

The Latest / For America, By America

BlueGreen Alliance Launches Video Ad Calling for a Strong Recovery Plan To Create Good-Paying Manufacturing Jobs, Fill Gaps Left By Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill 

Today, the BlueGreen Alliance—an organization that unites labor unions and environmental organizations to solve today’s environmental challenges in ways that create and maintain quality jobs and build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy—released a new video advertisement uplifting the voices of workers from across the country.

Climate Change & the Clean Economy

BlueGreen Alliance Applauds Biden Administration’s Funding for Coal Community Transition Funds

Yesterday, the Biden administration committed $300 million in American Rescue Plan funds to support economic development in coal communities through the Economic Development Administration (EDA). In response, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh: “Today’s announcement by the Biden administration demonstrates a strong commitment to do all we can to…

Clean Infrastructure

Labor, Business, and Environmental Leaders Call for Investments in Infrastructure, Manufacturing to Grow Family-Sustaining Jobs in Wisconsin

Leaders from the Greater West Central Wisconsin Area Labor Council, Milwaukee Area Labor Council, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 494, and Eau Claire-based solar company Solar Forma today joined together to call for investments by Congress to create family-sustaining jobs at an event hosted by Wisconsin Environment and moderated by the BlueGreen Alliance.

Blog / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure

For the Sake of Working Families, Pass the Full American Jobs Plan Right Now

What we’ve seen from the GOP in negotiations with the administration on President Biden’s American Jobs Plan is ‘rope-a-dope’ not compromise. The GOP is simply not interested in matching the administration’s efforts at a good faith negotiation, a reality that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made clear earlier this month when he stated that “100% of our focus is on stopping this new administration.”

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