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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 / 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.

Blog / Good Jobs

Creating a Prosperous, Fair, Clean Economy for Workers and Communities

Aug 21, 2019

To succeed in creating a new economy that values American workers, families, and our environment, we must ensure that nobody falls through the cracks. To do so we must build a globally competitive social safety net and reject the false narrative pushed by those intent on stifling the growth of the clean economy.

Blog / Global Climate Change

It’s Time for Bold Action to Reduce Emissions

Jul 11, 2019

Any plan to address climate change that is not in line with what the science calls for is doomed to fail. That’s why when the BlueGreen Alliance and our labor and environmental partners drafted Solidarity for Climate Action science was front and center, and that’s why we’ve called for the United States to be on a path to net zero emissions by 2050.

Blog / Clean Vehicles and Fuels

Clean Car Standards Give Americans Freedom to Save, No Matter What They Drive

Jul 03, 2019

The 4th of July means its peak summer: barbecues, kids at the pool, roadwork, farm stands, and summer driving—in all kinds of vehicles.

Blog / Water Infrastructure

Congress Holds Hearing on Clean Water Rule

Jun 12, 2019

The Clean Water Rule was put in place by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers to help communities and to restore protections for wetlands, streams, and other bodies of water that supply drinking water to 117 million Americans.

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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 Tools & Resources

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

Creating a Prosperous, Fair, Clean Economy for Workers and Communities

It’s Time for Bold Action to Reduce Emissions

Clean Car Standards Give Americans Freedom to Save, No Matter What They Drive

Congress Holds Hearing on Clean Water Rule