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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.

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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 / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

New Climate Innovation Fund Will Invest in Clean Energy, Good-Paying Jobs in Minnesota

Gov. Tim Walz today signed a new law funding the Minnesota Climate Innovation Finance Authority to provide financing and leverage private investment for clean energy, building retrofits, and other projects around the state. The law includes vital standards to ensure the jobs created by this “green bank” will be good-paying, safe, union jobs, such as preference for projects that utilize Project Labor Agreements, which are collective bargaining agreements between building trade unions and contractors.

Press Releases / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Investment in State Competitiveness Fund Will Create Good-Paying Jobs in Minnesota

A new law funding the Minnesota’s State Competitiveness Fund was signed today by Gov. Tim Walz. The action unlocks billions of dollars in federal funding and provides resources for local and tribal governments, schools, businesses, and other entities to pursue federal grants for energy and infrastructure investments through the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.

Press Releases / Advanced Manufacturing

Treasury Guidance on Inflation Reduction Act Domestic Content Bonuses Offers Clarity to Developers

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released guidance on the domestic content bonus credit for the clean energy tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act. For the first time ever, this additional credit will be available for developers using components and materials sourced directly from U.S. manufacturers. These credits are combined with historic supply-side investments in clean technology manufacturing.

Blog / Good Jobs

The Platform that Boosted Washington State’s Workforce

The Washington BlueGreen Alliance took on its largest, most diverse advocacy effort yet for the 2023 Legislative Session. One of the principal themes in our agenda was the importance of developing the net-zero workforce that Washington will need to meet our state’s clean energy goals. The following bills—all of which passed the State Legislature this year—represent progress towards that goal in one of three ways.

Press Releases / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

HUD Green and Resilient Retrofits Program Will Advance Equity and Climate Goals

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced the rollout of the $1 billion Inflation Reduction Act Green and Resilient Retrofits Program. The announcement took place at the Dunn Family Coop Apartments in Center Line, MI and was followed by a roundtable discussion attended by BlueGreen Alliance Michigan Regional Program Manager Frank Houston.

Letters / Good Jobs

The BlueGreen Alliance Sends Letter in Support of Good Jobs for Good Airports Act

Airport service workers are the backbone of American aviation. From cleaning planes and handling baggage, to protecting airports and performing maintenance, service workers keep airline infrastructure up and running. Securing better and more stable working conditions in our airports will not only advance a just economy, but will support this essential workforce in providing a 21st century transportation system to keep passengers safe and on-time.

Testimony & Comments / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to Request For Information from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity on Innovative Advanced Transformers

Investing in Large Power Transformer (LPT) manufacturing is an excellent opportunity to put people to work in the clean economy. Most of the jobs associated with transformer manufacturing are already union jobs. New federal investments going towards supporting a build out of the domestic LPT supply chain should continue to reinforce these high-road, family sustaining jobs. 

Press Releases / Good Jobs

Washington State Bridges the Transition to Clean Energy Jobs with the Climate-Ready Communities Act

Governor Jay Inslee yesterday signed the Climate-Ready Communities Act, legislation that establishes the Washington Climate Corps Network. The Washington Climate Corps Network will identify and grow climate-related service opportunities for young adults and veterans. People participating in the program will help create clean energy, low-carbon, climate-resilient communities around the state.

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