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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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Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The BlueGreen Alliance Comments on Draft Wind Energy Areas – Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Central Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf

As BOEM advances offshore wind processes from lease area identification to project development, it should utilize its authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to create a high-road, responsibly developed offshore wind industry. 

Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Request For Information on Indoor Air Quality in Buildings

We are pleased to offer comments to the EPA on Indoor Air Quality in buildings, which is an opportunity, especially for school buildings in disadvantaged communities, to protect and improve people’s health while optimizing opportunities for quality job creation. This is aligned with the Justice40 initiative to ensure federal investments benefit disadvantaged communities as well as the Good Jobs Initiative that calls on federal agencies to create good, quality jobs. 

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the U.S. Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service’s Request for Comments on the Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration

Our Policy Advisor, Ben Davis, responded to questions on Direct Air Capture and on the use of CCUS for industrial facilities, calling for the inclusion of high-road labor standards and strong protections for land, air, and water to be included as the IRS implements the 45Q tax credit.

Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Considerations for Proposed Lead and Copper Rule Improvements

One of our organizational priorities highlighted in BGA’s Solidarity for Racial Equity is to “Make Drinking Water Safe and Affordable Starting with Lead Service Lines in Disenfranchised and Marginalized Communities.” LSLR represents a significant and scalable opportunity to create good, union jobs, improve the health of entire communities, and address environmental injustice by prioritizing those communities that have been disproportionately impacted by toxic legacy chemicals like lead. 

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Joins Center for American Progress and environmental leaders in a letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury on Credit Enhancements Pertaining to Prevailing Wages and Registered Apprenticeship Requirements in the Inflation Reduction Act

These incentives are the keystone of the climate, justice, and jobs strategy that motivated this legislation, and efficient implementation of them will be critical to meeting our climate goals.

Testimony & Comments / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

BlueGreen Alliance responds to the Department of Treasury & Internal Revenue Service’s Request for Comments on the Inflation Reduction Act Amendments to the Clean Vehicle Tax Credit

The updated 30D Clean Vehicle Tax Credit represents an opportunity to lower the upfront cost of electric vehicles (EVs) for consumers, to accelerate the deployment of EVs, and to reshape the global automotive supply chain to support auto manufacturing workers and communities here.

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance responds to the Department of Treasury & Internal Revenue Service’s Request for Comments on the Inflation Reduction Act Regarding Prevailing Wage, Apprenticeship, Domestic Content, and Energy Communities Requirements

These tax credits present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to drastically reduce emissions while providing good union jobs in the clean economy and driving growth in U.S. manufacturing. At the same time, they will increase equity in the transition to a clean economy by maximizing the benefits of this job growth in communities disproportionately impacted by energy transition.

Testimony & Comments / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Department of the Treasury & Internal Revenue Service’s Request for Comments on Energy Security Tax Credits for Manufacturing under 48C and 45X

These tax credits present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to dramatically reduce greenhouse emissions, as well as toxic air, water, and land pollution, while providing good union jobs in the clean economy and driving growth in U.S. manufacturing.

Testimony & Comments / Buy Clean

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to Federal Buy Clean Request for Information on Construction Materials with Substantially Lower Embodied Carbon

A federal Buy Clean policy that prioritizes transparency, invests in innovation, and ties public dollars to low-carbon emissions materials holds the promise of transforming some of the most pollution-intensive and economically vital sectors in our economy—allowing us to confront climate change while rebuilding the middle class and advancing environmental justice.

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