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

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

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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Advocates Rally for Better VA Heat Illness Prevention Standards Before Record Breaking Summer Temperatures

As temperatures are expected to hit record highs, labor unions, faith leaders, and environmental advocates rallied today for better occupational heat illness prevention standards in Virginia. “With the impacts of climate change, extreme heat events are only going to increase in frequency, expand across geography, and reach temperature extremes previously unobserved,” said Virginia State Senator Ghazala…

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Senate Budget Proposal Drastically Rolls Back Manufacturing Tax Credits, Slashes Funding for Clean Energy and Jobs

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee released its proposed text for the Congressional budget bill, completing the Senate’s version of the GOP reconciliation package. This final title claws back grant funding helping us transition to a clean energy economy and in large part upholds a rollback of clean energy and advanced manufacturing tax credits passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

More than Two Million Jobs at Risk if Clean Manufacturing Tax Credits Repealed

A new research brief released today by the BlueGreen Alliance reveals that more than two million jobs across the manufacturing employment footprint are at risk if the budget reconciliation bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law. The House bill introduces provisions that would effectively kill tax credits for clean and advanced manufacturing by making them unusable and sunsetting them early.

Testimony & Comments / Workers' Rights

Comment on Proposed Rule “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service” (RIN 3206-AO01)

We write in strong opposition to the Office of Personnel Management’s proposed rule titled “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service,” published on April 23, 2025. Contrary to its stated intentions, this proposed rule would severely undermine the integrity and professionalism of the federal civil service by
reviving and expanding upon the discredited “Schedule F” policy from the first Trump administration—rebranded as “Schedule Policy/Career.”

Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

Trump Administration Claws Back Industrial Demonstrations Funding, Risking Jobs and Undermining US Manufacturing

The Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it would cancel more than $3.7 billion in funding for cutting edge manufacturing projects across the country. Many of the defunded projects were in Republican districts that voted heavily for President Donald Trump. China announced earlier this year that it is funding 100 industrial demonstration projects to produce similar decarbonization technologies.

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