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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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Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

Then and Now: U.S. Manufacturing Under The Trump and Biden-Harris Administrations

Taking a critical look at the industrial policies of the current Biden-Harris administration and the former Trump administration, we see a dramatic shift. On several points—including job creation, investment in manufacturing, investment in cleaning up industrial emissions, and domestic momentum in growing industries—we see that the Biden-Harris administration outperformed the Trump administration.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Workers' Rights

Inflation Reduction Act FAQs: Clean Energy Tax Credit Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship (PWA) Requirements

The strengthened and newly established tax credits for clean energy in the Inflation Reduction Act will not only drive the deployment of clean energy technologies and dramatically reduce pollution, but also provide high-quality jobs in the clean economy. This document will offer answers to some of the most common questions on these rules.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

New Study Reveals Investments Will Create More Than 190,000 Clean Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Per Year in Ohio, Michigan, Colorado and Oregon

New analysis commissioned by National Skills Coalition (NSC) and the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), shows that combined historic investments in clean energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure from three new federal laws—the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the CHIPS and Science Act—will create more than 190,000 jobs per year combined in Ohio, Michigan, Colorado, and Oregon over the next decade.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities

Then and Now: Worker Safety Under the Trump and Biden-Harris Administrations

In September 2020, The BlueGreen Alliance released Misled: The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Agenda on Working Families and the Environment, an analysis of a range of policy actions made by the Trump administration. Now, four years later, we can compare these policies alongside those of the Biden administration and clearly illustrate the impact of an administration’s prioritization of worker health and safety.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

New Research on Federal Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Climate Investments Shows Immense Job Opportunities and Workforce Needs 

A new report from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) examines labor supply, demand, and potential shortages from new U.S. clean energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure laws: the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and CHIPS and Science Act.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Supply Chain Development

Map and Analysis: Building a Strong Manufacturing Base for Clean Energy in the US

The clean technology supply chain analysis below can help federal and state policymakers, advocates, developers, journalists, and others trying to break down the complexity of domestic supply chains for clean energy. The map and spreadsheet below show how we can use new investments in the Inflation Reduction Act to bridge supply chain gaps and build a stronger, cleaner, and fairer industrial base for the clean economy in the U.S.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities

New User Guide Helps Companies Submit Strong Federal Funding Applications

 A new user guide from the BlueGreen Alliance released today will give companies a leg up in the competitive process to access more than $2 trillion dollars from the federal government to revitalize and clean up U.S. manufacturing, strengthen supply chains, support clean energy development, tackle the climate crisis, create good union jobs, and deliver real benefits…

Reports & Fact Sheets / Support for Impacted Workers

FACT SHEET: Lessons Learned from the Colorado Office of Just Transition

An analysis of the Colorado Office of Just Transition and its impact on communities and implementation of worker support since it opened in 2021. The report reviews the Office’s actions to date, identifies challenges and barriers to success, and provides recommendations for how it can continue to meet its objective of providing tangible support to coal transition workers and communities.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Buildings

Federal Government Will Reimburse Public or Non-Profit Hospitals up to 50% for Clean Energy Projects

 The Inflation Reduction Act expanded the availability of clean energy tax credits so that tax-exempt entities like public and non-profit hospitals can receive “direct pay” (also known as “elective pay”). In simple terms, direct pay allows such entities to recoup a significant portion of a clean energy project’s cost as a tax-free cash payment from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

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