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Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

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 and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

Surface Transportation Reauthorization Recommendations

The BlueGreen Alliance strongly supports efforts to rebuild and modernize America’s transportation infrastructure through a 2026 surface transportation reauthorization agenda that prioritizes both workers and the climate. Surface transportation reauthorization provides a unique opportunity to boost the economy, create millions of jobs, enhance resilience, and better protect our communities from harmful pollution. Read our full recommendations in the comment letter below.

Letters / Economic Development

U.S. Development Finance Corporation’s Reauthorization

Congress created the DFC to provide countries with an alternative to state-directed investments from authoritarian regimes. In theory, the DFC’s work should promote democratic governance, advance sustainability, and strengthen economic relationships that benefit both developing nations and the American people.   The BlueGreen Alliance shares the committee’s goal of ensuring that U.S. development finance advances our…

Press Releases & Statements / Fairness for Workers and Communities

Newsom Signs Bills to Reduce Industrial Pollution, Strengthen Workers’ Rights

Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed AB 1280 and SB 513 into law, two major steps forward to bolster California’s clean energy economy and strengthen worker protections. These laws will draw investments to decarbonize heavy industry, boost the state’s energy resilience, and keep businesses competitive while creating high-road, union jobs.  

Press Releases & Statements / Water Infrastructure

Progress Being Made on Lead Pipe Replacement Across Midwest Cities, but Work Remains

Water utility leaders from Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit today highlighted the progress being made in lead service line replacement in their cities and examined what is needed to accelerate the pace of this critical work. Speaking during a webinar hosted by the BlueGreen Alliance, the leaders shared lessons learned and emphasized the public health impacts of lead service line replacement. 

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