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Building Clean: Buy Local, Buy Healthy

Sep 12, 2016

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.

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

Jul 25, 2019

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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Year-End Priorities Letter to House Leadership

Nov 20, 2019

As a coalition of the nation’s largest labor unions and environmental groups, collectively representing millions of members and supporters, we wrote to House leadership to urge the to swiftly bring up several key items for floor consideration.

Testimony / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Testimony of Jason Walsh to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the House Committee on Natural Resources

Nov 14, 2019

BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh today testified in front of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the House Committee on Natural Resources at its legislative hearing on H.R. 4248 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2019.

Blog / Clean Vehicles and Fuels

The GM Strike and the Future of American Manufacturing

Oct 28, 2019

After more than a month on the picket lines, members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) at General Motors (GM) returned to work this week having ratified a contract that means better and more equitable wages, secure health care benefits, and that their “temporary” co-workers have a path to permanent jobs.

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How to Fix Climate Change and Income Inequality at the Same Time is a Debate Worth Having

Oct 14, 2019

Candidates seeking our presidency will be in Ohio tomorrow to debate the problems our nation faces and pitch their solutions to them. While worries about health care still dominate polling when it comes to the concerns of average folks, two other interrelated crises are rising up the charts: income inequality and climate change.

Letters / Clean Vehicles and Fuels

BlueGreen Alliance Stands in Solidarity with Striking UAW Workers

Oct 04, 2019

The BlueGreen Alliance, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, United Steelworkers, and Utility Workers Union of America today sent a letter to General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra urging GM to negotiate a fair contract with the United Auto Workers.

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Bluegreen Alliance and Partners Send Letter To U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Opposing Nomination of Eugene Scalia to be U.S. Secretary of Labor

Sep 19, 2019

The BlueGreen Alliance and seven labor and environmental partners urged the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to oppose the nomination of Eugene Scalia to be the U.S. Secretary of Labor

Testimony / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Testimony Of Jason Walsh To The Subcommittee On Environment And Climate Change Of The House Committee On Energy And Commerce

Sep 18, 2019

BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh today testified in front of the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce at its hearing on Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Pathways to Net Zero Industrial Emissions.

Testimony / Clean Vehicles and Fuels

Testimony of Zoe Lipman to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

Sep 10, 2019

The BlueGreen Alliance’s Director of Vehicles and Advanced Transportation Zoe Lipman today testified in front of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis during their hearing on manufacturing jobs for America’s workers

Testimony / Good Jobs

Testimony of Michael Williams to the House Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade, and Entrepreneurship

Sep 10, 2019

The BlueGreen Alliance’s Deputy Director Michael Williams today testified in front of the House Committee on Small Businesses Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade, and Entrepreneurship during their hearing on growing the clean energy economy.

Testimony / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Comments on U.S. Department of Labor’s Efforts to Weaken Apprenticeship Programs

Aug 26, 2019

The BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of fourteen of the nation’s largest and most influential labor unions and environmental organizations, collectively representing millions of members and supporters, urges the Department of Labor (DOL) to withdraw its proposed rulemaking titled “Apprenticeship Programs, Labor Standards for Registration, Amendment of Regulations,” which would exempt Industry Recognized Apprenticeship Programs (IRAPs) from being used within the construction industry for an indefinite period of time.

Letters / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs

Bluegreen Alliance Letter to House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Reauthorization of the Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards

Aug 26, 2019

The BlueGreen Alliance and more than 40 concerned groups urged the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce to strengthen the Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards to better protect workers, emergency responders, and local communities.

Blog / Good Jobs

Creating a Prosperous, Fair, Clean Economy for Workers and Communities

Aug 21, 2019

To succeed in creating a new economy that values American workers, families, and our environment, we must ensure that nobody falls through the cracks. To do so we must build a globally competitive social safety net and reject the false narrative pushed by those intent on stifling the growth of the clean economy.

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