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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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Blog / Good Jobs

Donald Trump Has Misled American Workers and We’re All Paying the Price

Oct 26, 2020

Donald Trump is once again making sweeping statements of success and false promises from sea to shining swing state. But the numbers—and the facts—tell a different story.

Research / Good Jobs

Misled: The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Agenda on Working Families and the Environment

Sep 17, 2020

As the current presidential term comes to an end, the nation is at a natural moment for taking stock. In evaluating the Trump administration, Americans will want to know: has this President improved my situation in life and is the nation’s future brighter? Analysis of a range of policy actions made by the Trump administration reveals that overwhelmingly the answer to that fundamental question for working families is a resounding “no.”

Blog / Clean Vehicles and Fuels

AB 841 supports high-quality jobs, helps prevent COVID-19 transmission in schools, and fights climate change

Sep 09, 2020

California, like the rest of the nation, is facing a number of gut punches including a pandemic, systemic racism, historic wildfire season, and unemployment.This September, BlueGreen Alliance is supporting a bill in California that, while not a silver bullet for all of our ailments, aims to move the needle slightly on every one of these issues.

Research / Good Jobs

2020 Polling Memo: Swing State Voters on Responsible COVID-19 Relief

Aug 17, 2020

As Congress debates the scope and scale of urgently needed COVID-19 relief and recovery packages, a recent public opinion poll highlights several critical considerations. Voters were clear. Financial assistance provided to larger corporations must be accompanied by specific and robust accountability measures to ensure that taxpayer money is spent efficiently and effectively in support of protecting jobs and positioning American industries for future success.

Letters / Workers' Rights

BlueGreen Alliance Calls for Robust COVID-19 Relief Package

Aug 06, 2020

The BlueGreen Alliance sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging the prioritization of workers and families as Congress continues to work to provide critical relief during the COVID-19 crisis.

Testimony / Workers' Rights

COVID-19 Federal Response & Economic Stimulus – BlueGreen Alliance Legislative Priorities

Aug 06, 2020

It is critical we ensure the safety of workers on the job in the face of COVID-19, whether they are nurses on the frontlines, workers in warehouses, utility workers keeping the lights on across the country, or manufacturing workers building essential products. Congress has taken significant steps to protect workers, and must continue to prioritize the most vulnerable; safeguard working peoples’ jobs, homes, and livelihoods; shore up essential public services; and protect the health and safety of frontline workers.

Research / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs

Less Exposure and More Protection: What We Can Do Now to Protect More Black and Brown Workers’ Lives

Jul 29, 2020

This new paper looks at how the coronavirus pandemic has upended lives. The enormity of this pain, however, has not been borne equally. Latinx and Black Americans are three times as likely to become infected as their white neighbors and nearly twice as likely to die from the virus as white people.

Testimony / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Testimony of Jason Walsh to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

Jul 28, 2020

BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh today testified at a virtual hearing of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis titled “Solving the Climate Crisis: Building a Vibrant and Just Clean Energy Economy.”

Toolkit / Good Jobs

State-Based Policies To Build A Cleaner, Safer, More Equitable Economy – A Policy Toolkit

Jul 24, 2020

This Policy Toolkit provides information to decisionmakers on a series of policies and measures, including Project Labor Agreements (PLAs), Prevailing Wage and Worker Benefits, Local Hire and Targeted Hire measures, and Organizing Rights and Negative Determination that can be used to ensure the creation of good, union jobs in the clean economy.

Toolkit / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs

Crafting State Policy That Protects Workers From Infectious Diseases – A Policy Toolkit

Jul 24, 2020

This toolkit is intended to represent policy responses to COVID-19 that can help workers affected by the coronavirus, using examples drawn from state executive orders and legislation.

Blog / Good Jobs

A Vision for an America that Works for Everybody

Jul 07, 2020

The ten-week total for unemployment claims has reached 40.8 million, suggesting about a quarter of our workforce has lost jobs during the pandemic and projections suggest that even if we start to recover, the unemployment rate will still be around 9.3% by the end of the year. And months into this pandemic, workers continue to…

Research / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Manufacturing Agenda: A National Blueprint for Clean Technology Manufacturing Leadership and Industrial Transformation

Jun 25, 2020

The BlueGreen Alliance’s manufacturing agenda proposes a set of national actions to achieve global leadership across clean technology manufacturing; cut emissions from the production of essential materials; upgrade and modernize the entirety of the U.S. industrial base within three decades; and undertake a new generation of industrial development that rebuilds good American jobs and is clean, safe, and fair for workers and communities alike.

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