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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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Reports & Fact Sheets / For America, By America

New Survey of Colorado Voters Reveals Support for Build Back Better

Sep 28, 2021

Colorado Leaders Hold Event Releasing Survey, Lifting Up Need for Investments in Energy Transmission to Build Back Better.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

Resilience Before Disaster: The Need to Build Equitable, Community-Driven Social Infrastructure

Sep 04, 2021

Resilience Before Disaster: The Need to Build Equitable, Community-Driven Social Infrastructure, jointly released by APEN, SEIU California, and BlueGreen Alliance, makes the case for California to make long-term and deep investments in the resilience of its most vulnerable communities.

For America, By America

Polis, Hickenlooper, Neguse Join Labor, Climate Advocates Urging Action to Fund Transit, Rail, and Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

Sep 01, 2021

Governor Jared Polis, Senator John Hickenlooper, and Representative Joe Neguse joined Colorado labor and climate leaders at Union Station today to urge U.S. Congress to fund Colorado rail projects, transit projects, and electric vehicle infrastructure in the budget reconciliation and bipartisan infrastructure bills.

Oregon Commits to the Country’s Most Ambitious Timeline for Achieving a Clean Energy Power Grid

Jul 27, 2021

At an event today, Oregon State Governor Kate Brown will sign into law House Bill 2021, which will grow clean energy and good jobs in Oregon by committing the state to the country’s most ambitious climate timeline for a 100% clean energy power grid in the country.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

The High Road to California EV Goals: Raising Ambition for High- Quality Domestic Manufacturing Jobs

Jul 01, 2021

This report offers a unique contribution to the debates surrounding the role of high-quality jobs and domestic manufacturing in the EV transition. The industry forecasts and analyses herein show that, if structured appropriately, domestic manufacturing goals in the form of a domestic assembly Buy America policy would not be detrimental to state environmental goals.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

America’s Energy Transition: A Case Study on the Passage and Implementation of the Country’s First Just Transition Bill

Mar 25, 2021

This case study focuses on the passage of first-of-its-kind just transition legislation in Colorado, which provides valuable lessons to advocates for coal communities and workers in other states and a glimpse into the challenges that lie ahead.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The Colorado and New Mexico Oil and Gas Workforce: Economic Contributions and Future Options

Jan 26, 2021

A new report released by the BlueGreen Alliance today entitled examines the current state of the oil and gas industry in Colorado and New Mexico and provides recommendations to blunt the impacts to workers due to the industry’s boom and bust cycle.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris

Nov 07, 2020

Following the projection that former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) have been elected President and Vice President of the United States of America, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

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BlueGreen Alliance Endorses Prop. 15 to Close Corporate Tax Loopholes, Put Schools and Communities First

Oct 05, 2020

The BlueGreen Alliance today announced its support for Proposition 15, which will close corporate property tax loopholes to generate billions in investments for California’s schools and local communities—all while protecting homeowners and renters, small businesses, and agriculture.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

New Report by Environmental Justice and Labor Groups Calls for Deep Investments in Social Infrastructure for Climate Resilience

Sep 21, 2020

“We Can’t Just Focus on Physical Infrastructure Investments, We Need to Invest in People and Community Support Systems”

Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

AB 841 supports high-quality jobs, helps prevent COVID-19 transmission in schools, and fights climate change

Sep 09, 2020

California, like the rest of the nation, is facing a number of gut punches including a pandemic, systemic racism, historic wildfire season, and unemployment.This September, BlueGreen Alliance is supporting a bill in California that, while not a silver bullet for all of our ailments, aims to move the needle slightly on every one of these issues.

Toolkit / Clean Economy Union Jobs

State-Based Policies To Build A Cleaner, Safer, More Equitable Economy – A Policy Toolkit

Jul 24, 2020

This Policy Toolkit provides information to decisionmakers on a series of policies and measures, including Project Labor Agreements (PLAs), Prevailing Wage and Worker Benefits, Local Hire and Targeted Hire measures, and Organizing Rights and Negative Determination that can be used to ensure the creation of good, union jobs in the clean economy.

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