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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

Feb 12, 2023

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

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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DOE Announces Agency Reorganization

Nov 20, 2025

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today its plans to reorganize the agency. This decision comes without any authorization from Congress and after a slew of clean energy project cancellations.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

General Motors and Ultium Lay Off Over 1,700 Union Workers Thanks to Trump’s Budget Bill

Oct 31, 2025

General Motors (GM) announced it would lay off 1,200 workers at its all-electric Factory Zero plant in Detroit, Michigan and 550 workers at the electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Lordstown, Ohio—a joint venture with Ultium. Workers at these plants are represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW).

Clean Economy Union Jobs

The August Jobs Report Shows the Trump Slump is Deepening

Sep 05, 2025

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released its August jobs report, confirming that the labor market is grinding to a halt. BLS reported that only 22,000 jobs were created in August, falling well short of expectations. Revised data from June now shows a net loss of 13,000 jobs—the first time the nation has reported negative job growth since the height of the pandemic.

The Latest / Industrial Transformation

Treasury Guidance on Tax Credits Sets Stage to Ensure No Workers or Communities Left Behind in Shift to Clean Energy

Mar 22, 2024

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled updated guidance for the energy community tax bonus included in the Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Buildings

BlueGreen Alliance Welcomes Reintroduction of Rebuild America’s Schools Act

Jul 27, 2023

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) today reintroduced the Rebuild America’s Schools Act, a bill to invest $130 billion to repair, rebuild, and modernize the physical and digital infrastructure of the nation’s school facilities and grounds.

Economic Development

Biden Administration Takes Steps to Ensure No Community Left Behind in Energy Transition

Apr 04, 2023

The Biden administration announced several initiatives today as leaders from across the country gathered to acknowledge the second anniversary of the founding of the Interagency Working Group (IWG) on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization.

EV Charging and Infrastructure

Biden Administration’s EV Charge Continues with Grant Program Announcement

Mar 14, 2023

The Biden administration today opened the first application round of funding for the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program. The program is a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) investment supporting state and local governments and public entities to build electric vehicle (EV) charging and other alternative fuel infrastructure in their communities.

Economic Development

Biden Elevates Efforts to Fight Climate Change, Create Good Jobs

Mar 09, 2023

President Joe Biden today unveiled his fiscal year 2024 budget request. The request includes support for the administration’s ongoing efforts to drive down emissions and create jobs.

Buy Clean

Biden Administration’s Announcement Offers a Path for Cleaner Industries, Good Jobs in US

Mar 08, 2023

The Biden administration today announced a suite of advancements related to industrial investment and Buy Clean procurement policies.

Buy Clean

BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh Joins White House to Discuss Clean Economy Job Creation

Mar 03, 2023

BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh joined the White House for a roundtable convening with White House officials, industrial sector executives, and labor leaders to discuss how emissions-reducing investments in industrial transformation can create good, union jobs in the United States.

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BlueGreen Alliance Endorses Kim Schrier

Oct 17, 2022

The BlueGreen Alliance, a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations, today announced the organization has endorsed Dr. Kim Schrier for the Eighth Congressional District in Washington.

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BlueGreen Alliance Endorses Dina Titus

Oct 05, 2022

The BlueGreen Alliance, a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations, today announced the organization has endorsed Dina Titus for the First Congressional District of Nevada.

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