Colorado Legislative Priorities 2022
The Colorado BlueGreen Alliance Table worked together to ensure that quality climate solutions and licensed worker supports were the focus of a variety of bills this session.
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Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Make Your Voice Heard: Tell the Virginia SCC to Support the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project and Ensure Maximum Benefits to Virginian Workers
The Virginia 2020 Clean Energy Economy Act requires that offshore wind energy projects maximize local economic benefits and prioritize jobs for historically disadvantaged workers and Virginia residents. The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) must certify that the CVOW project will deliver such benefits, and is now accepting written comments. Verbal Comments will be received by phone beginning at 10 a.m. on May 16.
Blog / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs
Remembering Our Nation’s Fallen Workers
Perhaps one of these tragic and largely preventable deaths has hit close to home for you—with a family member, friend, neighbor, or co-worker who went off to work and never came home. But even if you don’t know someone personally who has died on the job, you can be sure someone has who provided you, your family, and community with the goods and services you needed, wanted, or relied on this past year. You may not know them by name but each one was loved and deserves to be remembered. And their loss serves as a reminder of the day’s full slogan: “Remember the Dead: Fight for the Living.”
Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Congress Needs to Act to Realize the Jobs Potential of Offshore Wind
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the results of the New York Bight offshore wind sale. The auctioned area included six lease areas totaling over 488,000 acres and drew competitive winning bids from six companies totaling approximately $4.37 billion. This is a huge deal.
Blog / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs
From “Cancer Alley” to Potentially Deadly Explosions: We have a Duty to Protect Fenceline Communities and Workers
Fenceline communities and workers at chemical facilities live in a state of constant danger as the threat of explosions, fires, and chemical releases looms. The burden of threat lies disproportionately on the shoulders of workers and poor communities of color.
Blog / For America, By America
10 Things Congress Can Do Right Now to Build Back Better For America, By America
The time to act is now. The bipartisan infrastructure bill—called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)—is the start, not the end, of what we need to build back better. Congress must act boldly and invest the full $3.5 trillion in the Senate Build Back Better budget resolution to build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy.