Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Overnight, Republicans on the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means and the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted to approve proposed bill text for the Congressional reconciliation process.
Press Releases & Statements / Fairness for Workers and Communities
President Donald Trump celebrated the first 100 days of his second term in office today. Since he took the oath of office, Trump has put America on the path to a recession, gutted our government’s capacity to serve the public good, assaulted workers’ rights, and punished his political enemies.
Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
The BlueGreen Alliance released its 2025 Manufacturing Roadmap today. The resource highlights major progress made in domestic manufacturing growth and recommendations for further action to secure the clean manufacturing renaissance our country needs. The roadmap emphasizes that clean manufacturing is the future of all manufacturing, and therefore competitiveness depends on sustaining investment in industrial transformation.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin today announced plans to overturn more than 30 regulations and other policies that protect public health, support job creation, and ensure that Americans have access to clean air.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
A new report from the Princeton University ZERO Lab revealed potentially devastating impacts on the U.S. auto industry if federal regulations and tax credits related to clean vehicle adoption are repealed. The report shows that in the absence of these federal initiatives, auto manufacturing from assembly down through the supply chain would face significant losses.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
President Donald Trump today issued an executive order repealing several Biden-era climate measures, efforts to address systemic racial and environmental injustice, efforts to position the nation as a leader in the clean vehicle sector, and protections for civil servants.
Testimony & Comments / Industrial Transformation
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has a critical role to play in shaping the future of the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) industry. By leveraging its procurement power, DOE can establish a strong precedent for a pro-worker, equitable CDR industry that benefits climate, communities, and the workforce. We urge the DOE to prioritize these considerations as it develops any CDR procurement strategies. The BlueGreen Alliance welcomes the opportunity to contribute to discussions on catalyzing direct air capture technology commercialization. Our recommendations can be read in this comment letter.
Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released the final rule on the 45X tax credit, a production tax credit meant to grow domestic manufacturing for solar, wind, batteries, and critical materials. Federal investments and tax credits in manufacturing and climate action—made possible by the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act—have the potential to create 900,000 jobs by 2032.
Press Releases & Statements / Industrial Transformation
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Cleveland Cliffs funding from their Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP) to get the first phase of a low-carbon steel project underway in Middletown, Ohio. The company plans to install a hydrogen-ready flex-fuel Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) plant and two electric melting furnaces at the facility. The hydrogen DRI process being used in the Middletown plant is a game-changing technology that promises dramatic reductions in the carbon intensity of primary steel and a boost to the competitiveness of US steelmaking.
Press Releases & Statements / Industrial Transformation
Since announcing Nippon Steel Corporation’s bid to buy U.S. Steel, Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel have waged an aggressive persuasion, advertising, and lobbying blitz to influence elected officials to approve their takeover.
Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
The Bluegreen Alliance today released a new report, Then and Now: US Manufacturing Under the Trump and Biden-Harris Administrations, which compares the success and failures of the last two administrations’ manufacturing agendas.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
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.