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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 / 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.

Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy

Comments on Air Quality Permits to Construct for US Wind’s Maryland Offshore Wind Project

On behalf of the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), our partners, and the members and supporters they represent, we are writing to express our strong support for issuing the Air Quality Permits to Construct for US Wind’s Maryland Offshore Wind Project. These permits are a critical and responsible step in Maryland’s clean energy transition, ensuring that offshore wind development moves forward while maintaining air quality safeguards. You can read our recommendations to the Maryland Department of Environment in the comments linked below.

Press Releases & Statements / Chemical Safety

Congress’s Short-Sighted Repeal of the Methane Waste Emissions Charge Will Harm Communities

Congress passed Congressional Review Act (CRA) legislation yesterday, repealing the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Waste Emissions Charge (WEC).  WEC—a rule established under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Methane Emissions Reduction Program—reinforced the immediate need for methane mitigation to curb climate change and protect communities and workers from harmful pollution. Together with the $1.5 billion in…

Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy

Comments on Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for California Offshore Wind

We thank the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for the opportunity to comment on the draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for California offshore wind. We appreciate BOEM’s draft PEIS analyzing the potential impacts of offshore wind energy development in the five lease areas off California’s coast. The final sale notice for these areas included lease stipulations designed to promote the development of a robust domestic supply chain, advance flexibility in transmission planning, and create good paying, union jobs. BGA urges BOEM to include more robust stipulations and bidding credits in its future leases and consider our recommendations in this letter.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Russell Vought’s Confirmation is a Disaster for Workers and the Environment

The U.S. Senate confirmed Russell Vought as the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) yesterday. While he was still the unconfirmed OMB nominee, Vought orchestrated a sweeping freeze on federal grant and loan payments. This funding freeze halted investments authorized by Congress, such as the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the CHIPS and Science Act. The pause also impacted public service programs that the country depends on. 

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