Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Electric Buses = More Good, Union Jobs for Low-Income Californians
California is on the cutting edge of the clean economy thanks to our leadership in addressing climate change.
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Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Supplying Ingenuity II: U.S. Suppliers Of Key Clean, Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Technologies
Over the past decade, the U.S. automotive industry has demonstrated that we can bring back American jobs and manufacturing and enhance industry competitiveness and profitability. American workers are building world-leading, popular vehicles that save consumers billions at the pump, enhance energy security, and cut pollution.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Advanced Clean Technology
TAKING STOCK: Opportunities and Challenges in California’s Natural Gas Distribution System
Methane is the primary component of natural gas and it is much more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Natural gas distribution systems around the country are leaking methane. Repairing those leaks will create quality jobs for workers, while addressing climate change. Taking Stock: Opportunities and Challenges in California’s Natural Gas Distribution System reveals best practices for repairing and replacing leak-prone natural gas pipes in the state.
Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
A Victory in California to Grow Jobs, Reduce Methane Leaks
In California, the BlueGreen Alliance worked with labor unions and environmental organizations to help enact SB 1371, which compels the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) to improve leak identification, repair, and avoidance, as well as better account for the climate change impact of natural gas leaks in the state’s natural gas distribution systems.
Blog / Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure
Mapping the way forward on preventing powerful methane emissions
What do Boston, New York, Indianapolis and Syracuse all have in common? They’re all cities part of the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) methane leaks interactive data map of where the methane leaks are located in a given city.
Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure
Gov. Brown Signs Bill to Repair California’s Natural Gas Leaks
A group of labor and environmental leaders today lauded Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of a bill that will require utilities to address the growing issue of natural gas leaks in distribution pipelines.