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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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Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

More than Two Million Jobs at Risk if Clean Manufacturing Tax Credits Repealed

A new research brief released today by the BlueGreen Alliance reveals that more than two million jobs across the manufacturing employment footprint are at risk if the budget reconciliation bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law. The House bill introduces provisions that would effectively kill tax credits for clean and advanced manufacturing by making them unusable and sunsetting them early.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

FACTSHEET: Direct Pay, Supporting Decarbonization of State and Municipal Governments

In simple terms, direct pay (also known as elective pay) is a mechanism that lets tax-exempt entities, including state and local governments, to recoup a significant portion of the cost of a clean energy project as a reimbursement from the IRS. Historically, it wasn’t possible for state and local governments and other tax-exempt entities to…

Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

FACTSHEET: Direct Pay, Supporting Decarbonization of Higher Ed Buildings

In simple terms, direct pay is a mechanism that lets tax-exempt entities, including public colleges and universities, recoup a significant portion of the cost of a clean energy project as a reimbursement from the IRS. Historically, it wasn’t possible for public institutions and other tax-exempt entities to take advantage of clean energy tax credits. Now,…

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

New Data Shows Repeal of EV Initiatives Will Decimate Investment in US Auto Industry

A new report from the Princeton University ZERO Lab revealed potentially devastating impacts on the U.S. auto industry if federal regulations and tax credits related to clean vehicle adoption are repealed. The report shows that in the absence of these federal initiatives, auto manufacturing from assembly down through the supply chain would face significant losses.  

Reports & Fact Sheets / Fairness for Workers and Communities

California Contra Costa Refinery Transition Partnership Report and Policy Recommendations

PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE The CCRTP is made up of nine core organizations, five of which have voting power within the partnership (*)—reflecting their direct representation of impacted frontline workers and communities—with the other three organizations acting as non-voting supporting organizations: United Steelworkers District 12* United Steelworkers Local 5*  United Steelworkers International Union   Asian Pacific Environmental Network*  UA…

Reports & Fact Sheets / For America, By America

Making BABA Work for American Manufacturers

The Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) was signed into law by President Biden as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)—also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. BABA strengthens and expands “Buy America” requirements for federally financed infrastructure projects. Specifically, it requires that the iron, steel, construction materials, and manufactured products used in all federally assisted infrastructure projects be produced in the United States. For American manufacturers, the passage of BABA means that billions of dollars are ready to be spent on the products you produce in the United States. Read our User Guide to learn more and take advantage of this new opportunity.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Transmission

FACT SHEET: Midwest Energy Transmission Project Set to Deliver Jobs, Clean Energy

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) coordinates, controls, and monitors the sale and use of our electric transmission system across 15 states.2 In July 2022—after the largest and most complex study process to date—MISO approved Tranche 1 of Long-Range Transmission Planning (LRTP). Read our fact sheet to see the thousands of jobs that MISO LRTP-1 can deliver.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Biden-Harris Investments to Usher in New Era for Clean Energy in America

President Biden will travel to Westby, Wisconsin today to announce an award from the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program. At the event, the president is expected to highlight a New ERA investment funded by the Inflation Reduction Act that Dairyland Power Cooperative will use to grow solar energy efforts to supply power to utilities in a four-state area. New ERA is designed to help member-owned rural energy cooperatives transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy—creating good jobs for local workers and ensuring workers and communities aren’t left behind in the transition to cleaner, cheaper energy.

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