Blog / 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.
Blog / For America, By America
The BlueGreen Alliance, joined by some of the nation’s largest labor unions and environmental organizations, launched For America, By America—a campaign urging Congress to ignite a new era of investments needed to Build Back Better, including critical investments to create good-paying manufacturing jobs.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
When it comes to buildings, the American Jobs Plan charts a strong path forward by highlighting the key areas within the buildings sector that can make a significant impact in addressing all three intersecting crises: climate change, racial inequality and economic equality.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
The economic and environmental success of the nationwide transition to cleaner vehicles hinge on the extent to which decision-makers prioritize domestic EV manufacturing and good jobs as a part of a robust EV policy agenda, and a broader clean transportation agenda.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
EVs are on their way to dominating the worldwide passenger vehicle market, representing an important stride toward national and global climate goals. But what will this mean for workers and communities here in the U.S.? That depends on decisions Congress and the Administration make today.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
Healthy ecosystems are a key component in building resilient communities that can adapt to the impacts of climate change. Coastal ecosystems and healthy dunes, wetlands, and forests shield people and property from sea-level rise and severe storms and flooding and provide benefits for wildlife and water quality.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
Our country deserves world-class transportation options, and such investment will pay dividends in jobs, access to opportunity, economic growth, and savings of time to be with our loved ones. We need an infrastructure bill that will match the scope of our aspirations and needs as a country, so that we will not continue to fall behind. We can choose to build top-flight transportation systems, and the AJP is a strong blueprint to do so.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
To achieve true economic recovery, we need to rebuild stronger, more resilient communities while investing in our health care systems, public health agencies, education, community-based services, essential utilities (i.e. water), and the workers that operate these services.
Blog / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure
What we’ve seen from the GOP in negotiations with the administration on President Biden’s American Jobs Plan is ‘rope-a-dope’ not compromise. The GOP is simply not interested in matching the administration’s efforts at a good faith negotiation, a reality that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made clear earlier this month when he stated that “100% of our focus is on stopping this new administration.”
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
As we work to rebuild our economy we must prioritize equitable rebuilding and investments in those workers and communities most in need, including those impacted by changes in our nation’s energy system. America’s energy transition is well underway. But a transition that is fair for workers and communities isn’t something that will happen organically.
Blog / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
As the U.S. takes necessary steps to both promote an economic recovery and mitigate climate change, two efforts must advance hand in hand: supporting domestic manufacturing and reducing emissions from the industrial sector.