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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 / Water Infrastructure

Progress Being Made on Lead Pipe Replacement Across Midwest Cities, but Work Remains

Water utility leaders from Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit today highlighted the progress being made in lead service line replacement in their cities and examined what is needed to accelerate the pace of this critical work. Speaking during a webinar hosted by the BlueGreen Alliance, the leaders shared lessons learned and emphasized the public health impacts of lead service line replacement. 

Blog / Building Clean

Toxic Inequity Indoors: The Disproportionate Impact of Hazardous Chemicals on Communities of Color

Across the country, the places we call home are silently harming us—but not equally. Indoor environments often harbor invisible threats in the form of toxic chemicals embedded in building materials, furnishings, and finishes. While all people are vulnerable to this type of chemical exposure, systemic inequalities have led to people of color bearing a disproportionate burden of these harms. To help call attention to these inequities, Building Clean developed a literature review making the connection between health implications, health hazards, and people of color.

Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

Ohio Policy Experts Speak Out Against Dangerous Cuts to Clean Energy Investment, Manufacturing Job Growth, Public Schools, Health Care

Union leaders, labor advocates, and climate champions from Ohio held a press conference today about what is at risk under the Republican budget bill expected to be voted on in the U.S. Senate in the next few days. A recording of the press conference can be found on the BlueGreen Alliance YouTube channel. The bill threatens clean energy and manufacturing investments and tax credits revitalizing local economies around the state. 

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Senate Budget Proposal Drastically Rolls Back Manufacturing Tax Credits, Slashes Funding for Clean Energy and Jobs

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee released its proposed text for the Congressional budget bill, completing the Senate’s version of the GOP reconciliation package. This final title claws back grant funding helping us transition to a clean energy economy and in large part upholds a rollback of clean energy and advanced manufacturing tax credits passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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