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Building Clean: Buy Local, Buy Healthy

Sep 12, 2016

The Energy Efficiency Products Database is supported by the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation and it highlights a broad range of energy efficiency housing products and forms part of a larger national initiative to accelerate the retrofit of multifamily, low-income facilities.

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Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

Jul 25, 2019

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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Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

7 Things President Biden Can do to Deliver a Clean, Thriving, and Equitable Economy

Jan 20, 2021

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are inheriting a nation in crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic has touched every corner of our society and its impacts have exacerbated the ongoing and devastating crises of climate change, economic inequality, and racial inequality. The actions that this administration take now will determine the course of our recovery from this overwhelming chapter of American history.

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Donald Trump Has Misled American Workers and We’re All Paying the Price

Oct 26, 2020

Donald Trump is once again making sweeping statements of success and false promises from sea to shining swing state. But the numbers—and the facts—tell a different story.

Blog / Clean Vehicles and Fuels

AB 841 supports high-quality jobs, helps prevent COVID-19 transmission in schools, and fights climate change

Sep 09, 2020

California, like the rest of the nation, is facing a number of gut punches including a pandemic, systemic racism, historic wildfire season, and unemployment.This September, BlueGreen Alliance is supporting a bill in California that, while not a silver bullet for all of our ailments, aims to move the needle slightly on every one of these issues.

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A Vision for an America that Works for Everybody

Jul 07, 2020

The ten-week total for unemployment claims has reached 40.8 million, suggesting about a quarter of our workforce has lost jobs during the pandemic and projections suggest that even if we start to recover, the unemployment rate will still be around 9.3% by the end of the year. And months into this pandemic, workers continue to…

Blog / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs

We Need More Than “Good Faith” to Protect the Lives of Meatpacking Workers, Their Families

Apr 30, 2020

By Charlotte Brody, RN, Vice President of Health Initiatives for the BlueGreen Alliance

Blog / Good Jobs

A Better Bailout for Workers

Mar 24, 2020

Congress took the first major step last week 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.

Blog / Made in America

Does Daylight Saving Time even save energy? Spring forward on energy efficiency anyways!

Mar 08, 2020

In 2008, The United States Department of Energy Department examined the impact of the extended Daylight Saving Time on energy consumption in the United States and found that Daylight Saving Time saved about 0.5% in total electricity per day. While this might not sound like a lot, it adds up to electricity savings of 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours—or…

Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Another Trump Budget, More Broken Promises

Mar 04, 2020

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,…

Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Block Island Project Shows the Enormous Opportunity of Offshore Wind Power

Dec 05, 2019

Labor union leaders from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. toured the first operational commercial offshore wind project off Rhode Island this summer to see the unparalleled contribution that offshore wind can make in creating good jobs in a clean energy future.

Blog / Clean Vehicles and Fuels

The GM Strike and the Future of American Manufacturing

Oct 28, 2019

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.

Blog / Good Jobs

How to Fix Climate Change and Income Inequality at the Same Time is a Debate Worth Having

Oct 14, 2019

Candidates seeking our presidency will be in Ohio tomorrow to debate the problems our nation faces and pitch their solutions to them. While worries about health care still dominate polling when it comes to the concerns of average folks, two other interrelated crises are rising up the charts: income inequality and climate change.

Blog / Methane Mitigation

Rolling Back Methane Regulation is a Leap in the Wrong Direction

Aug 29, 2019

One of the biggest challenges we face together as a nation is climate change and its ever growing threat.

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Building Clean: Buy Local, Buy Healthy

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

All Updates & Resources

7 Things President Biden Can do to Deliver a Clean, Thriving, and Equitable Economy

Donald Trump Has Misled American Workers and We’re All Paying the Price

AB 841 supports high-quality jobs, helps prevent COVID-19 transmission in schools, and fights climate change

A Vision for an America that Works for Everybody

We Need More Than “Good Faith” to Protect the Lives of Meatpacking Workers, Their Families

A Better Bailout for Workers

Does Daylight Saving Time even save energy? Spring forward on energy efficiency anyways!

Another Trump Budget, More Broken Promises

Block Island Project Shows the Enormous Opportunity of Offshore Wind Power

The GM Strike and the Future of American Manufacturing

How to Fix Climate Change and Income Inequality at the Same Time is a Debate Worth Having

Rolling Back Methane Regulation is a Leap in the Wrong Direction