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Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

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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Letters / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

RFI Response to OSTP on the development of a National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing

Investment in the manufacturing sector, along with appropriate trade measures, is critical for securing U.S. competitiveness. R&D spending has economy-wide benefits including promoting the innovation required to remain competitive in a globalized economy. Countries are competing for new technologies to give their industrial sectors an edge. Solar, wind, and battery capacity are being added to…

Letters / Economic Development

U.S. Development Finance Corporation’s Reauthorization

Congress created the DFC to provide countries with an alternative to state-directed investments from authoritarian regimes. In theory, the DFC’s work should promote democratic governance, advance sustainability, and strengthen economic relationships that benefit both developing nations and the American people.   The BlueGreen Alliance shares the committee’s goal of ensuring that U.S. development finance advances our…

Letters / Chemical Safety

California Labor, Environmental, and Community Organizations Send Letter in Opposition to the Proposed Amendments to Process Safety Management (PSM) Regulation

A group of California labor, environmental, and community organizations today sent a letter to the California Environmental Protection Agency and the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) in opposition to the proposed amendments to the state’s landmark Process Safety Management (PSM) rules.

Letters / Building Clean

BlueGreen Alliance Letter of Opposition to Russel Vought’s Nomination to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

While we rarely weigh in on nominations, we oppose the nomination of Russell Vought to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and encourage you to vote “no” on his confirmation. Vought’s hostility toward career public servants and desire to consolidate executive power are incompatible with the principles of a fair and balanced…

Letters / Industrial Transformation

BlueGreen Alliance Joins 17 Groups in Calling for Funding to Reduce Industrial Emissions

The BlueGreen Alliance and 17 other groups sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee to strongly recommend that the committee include at least $1 billion in crosscutting funding for the Department of Energy (DOE) to support the decarbonization of America’s industrial base and enhance its long-term global competitiveness.

Letters / Buy Clean

BlueGreen Alliance Letter of Support for EPA’s Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products

The BlueGreen Alliance writes to express our support of the collaborative application between the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), and University of Massachusetts Amherst for the Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products grant program.

Letters / Trade

The BlueGreen Alliance Signs Joint Letter Urging Biden to Terminate ISDS Provisions in Existing U.S. Trade and Investment Agreements

Corporations have an unfair advantage over sovereign nations under many trade and investment agreements. Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), embedded in numerous trade and investment agreements, has created a global governance regime that prioritizes corporate rights over those of governments, people, and the planet. The labor, environmental, faith, consumer, and other civil society organizations signed below appreciate that you have followed through on your promise and have not pursued new trade and investment agreements with the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system.

Letters / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities

The BlueGreen Alliance Joins Letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Urging the Adoption of Stronger and More Comprehensive Lead and Copper Rules

We urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to immediately propose Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) that comprehensively address roadblocks in finishing the job. While the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the American Rescue Plan created funding to replace lead service lines, the states hardest-hit by this public health emergency need additional support and clear requirements to ensure appropriate corrosion control treatment to address lead-containing premise pluming and the complete removal of all lead pipes from their communities within 10 years. 

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