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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 / Fairness for Workers and Communities

Trump Scrambles to Try to Rescue Van Orden from the Consequences of His Own Votes

With Van Orden’s support, the Trump administration has rolled back the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), which would have helped lower electricity bill costs for farmers at a time when utility bills are skyrocketing. Additionally, the actions of the Trump administration and GOP Congress—including Rep. Van Orden—have driven costs up across the economy for everything from healthcare to electricity to gasoline. 

Press Releases & Statements / Water Infrastructure

New Documentary Exposes Federal Funding Cliff at the End of 2026, Wisconsin’s Push to Replace All Lead Pipes

The Avalon Atmospheric Theater transformed from a classic cinema house into a hub for public health advocacy for the premiere of The Fight for Progress: Wisconsin’s Push for Lead Pipe Replacement. Produced jointly by Wisconsin Conservation Voters and the BlueGreen Alliance, the 30-minute documentary moves past the headlines to show the human and economic reality of lead service line replacement. 

Clean Economy Union Jobs

JD Vance Visits Manufacturing Facility in Plover, WI as US Bleeds Manufacturing Jobs

Today, joined by Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI-03), Vice President JD Vance visited Pointe Precision, a machining facility in Plover, Wisconsin. Vance gave remarks claiming the administration’s accomplishments in the manufacturing sector. However, jobs reports show that the U.S. manufacturing industry has lost over 100,000 manufacturing jobs across the country in the first year of President Trump’s second term. 

Press Releases & Statements / Water Infrastructure

Progress Being Made on Lead Pipe Replacement Across Midwest Cities, but Work Remains

Water utility leaders from Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit today highlighted the progress being made in lead service line replacement in their cities and examined what is needed to accelerate the pace of this critical work. Speaking during a webinar hosted by the BlueGreen Alliance, the leaders shared lessons learned and emphasized the public health impacts of lead service line replacement. 

Press Releases & Statements / Onshore Clean Energy

USDA New ERA Awards to Invest in Clean Power Across Nine States

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announcedinvestments from the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act to lower energy costs and grow clean power across nine states. The $3 billion funding from the New Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program will go to rural energy cooperatives in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Minnesota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. 

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