Toolkit / Clean Vehicles and Fuels
The Trump administration is taking action to deeply weaken America’s world-leading fuel economy and vehicle greenhouse gas standards. That action is bad for workers and the economy.
Letters / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
As a coalition of some of the nation’s largest labor unions and environmental organizations, collectively representing millions of members and supporters, the BlueGreen Alliance thanks you for advancing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to provide critical relief during this crisis.
Testimony / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Congress took the first steps to address the immediate economic impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic when it passed legislation to provide paid time off to some workers and boost unemployment insurance, among other measures. This was a positive start, but facing an economy that will probably lose millions of jobs by this summer, more is needed and it is needed now.
Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
The president’s 2021 budget cuts efforts to ensure worker and community health and safety, spur U.S. manufacturing and innovation, invest in the communities hardest hit by America’s transition to cleaner, cheaper energy, and protect our environment for future generations. The proposed cuts would make workplaces more dangerous, mean more pollution in our air and water,…
Testimony / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh today testified in front of the House Committee on Natural Resources at its legislative hearing on H.R. 5435, the American Public Lands and Waters Climate Solution Act of 2019.
Testimony / Clean Vehicles and Fuels
Kevin Lee, the State Policy Director for the BlueGreen Alliance, testified before the Joint Meeting of the Minnesota State Senate Committees on Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Legacy Finance.
Testimony / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
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
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.
Letters / Clean Vehicles and Fuels
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.