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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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Clean Economy Union Jobs

JD Vance Visits Manufacturing Facility in Plover, WI as US Bleeds Manufacturing Jobs

Today, joined by Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI-03), Vice President JD Vance visited Pointe Precision, a machining facility in Plover, Wisconsin. Vance gave remarks claiming the administration’s accomplishments in the manufacturing sector. However, jobs reports show that the U.S. manufacturing industry has lost over 100,000 manufacturing jobs across the country in the first year of President Trump’s second term. 

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Trump Tries to Save Face in State of the Union while Approval Plumets

President Donald Trump tonight delivered his State of the Union address before Congress. The speech comes amid rapidly falling approval ratings, as recent polling has shown that voters, including those who voted for him, disapprove of Trump’s actions in nearly every issue area, particularly those related to inflation and the economy, which Trump campaigned heavily on fixing.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Making Clean Energy Tax Credits Deliver for the Public: A User Guide for Governments, Schools, and Nonprofits

The Inflation Reduction Act extended and strengthened tax credits for investment in and production of a range of clean energy technologies—including solar, geothermal, wind, heat pumps, clean hydrogen, electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure—and energy storage technology. Critically, tax-exempt entities, such as public schools, non-profit hospitals, and Tribal, local, and state governments can now claim the tax credits in the form of “direct pay.”

Press Releases & Statements / Offshore Clean Energy

Courts Put Down Trump’s Attempt to Stop East Coast Offshore Wind Projects

Federal courts allowed the Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York to continue yesterday after the Trump administration halted construction. This is the fifth project to win an injunction after the Trump administration issued stop work orders on the offshore wind sites in December, citing illegitimate national security concerns. The credibility of that claim was questioned as all the projects were approved in coordination with the U.S. Department of…

Press Releases & Statements / Offshore Clean Energy

One Year of Trump’s Vendetta against Clean Energy

President Donald Trump has used his administration to cut federal support and halt permitting for clean energy, specifically for offshore wind generation. Despite the potential benefits of offshore wind—to include thousands of good new union jobs, gigawatts of affordable energy for the national grid, and economic revitalization for vulnerable communities—Trump has consistently attempted to dismantle the industry. 

Press Releases & Statements / Offshore Clean Energy

Federal Courts Protect U.S. Offshore Wind Projects Against Trump Administration’s Assault

A federal judge allowed the Central Virginia Offshore Wind project to continue construction today after the Trump administration issued a stop-worker order for “national security concerns.” This follows other court decisions to grant preliminary injunctions for similar orders on the Empire Wind project and Revolution Wind project.  

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