Testimony & Comments / Advanced Manufacturing
Together they will revitalize U.S. manufacturing, grow clean energy, and support and create good union jobs in Minnesota and around the country. They will also significantly reduce climate emissions. The Inflation Reduction Act alone will tackle climate change by reducing emissions up to 42% by 2030.
Testimony & Comments / Clean Infrastructure
Offshore transmission and grid infrastructure can ensure that clean power is delivered to communities across the country, while also ensuring that our infrastructure is resilient and reliable.
Testimony & Comments / Clean Infrastructure
Investing in transmission and electric infrastructure is an excellent opportunity to put people to work in the clean economy.
High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure
New guidance from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) will help determine how states spend $11.3 billion of funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to clean up abandoned mine lands.
Testimony & Comments / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure
As DOE works to implement the Transmission Facilitation Program, it must ensure that these investments support workers and communities and translate into high-road, union jobs, and accessible jobs for workers of color and other segments of the population historically left behind.
Testimony & Comments / Green Schools
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the buildings sector accounts for 31% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Public buildings, in particular, have the potential to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These types of buildings, also known as Municipal, University, Schools, Hospitals (MUSH) tend to be the most energy intensive because they are typically large, old and have high electricity demand.
Press Releases / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
In honor of Earth Day, Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) joined LIUNA Minnesota, Conservation Minnesota, and the BlueGreen Alliance for a tour of the Laborers Training Center in Lino Lakes. The group toured the facility’s pipe, construction, and environmental bays, where workers prepare for jobs in clean energy and infrastructure.
Letters / Clean Vehicles and Fuels
The BlueGreen Alliance provided input on the implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration’s (EPA) Clean School Bus Program.
Press Releases / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure
At an event today, President Joe Biden outlined a new executive order (EO) designed to ensure Project Labor Agreements (PLAs)—collective bargaining agreements covering all of the craft workers on a construction project that provide comprehensive guidance and set mutual expectations for large projects—are required for federally funded projects over $35 million dollars. PLAs are considered the gold standard of labor provisions by most building trades unions.
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
The Committee on Ways and Means yesterday passed its budget reconciliation package, a broad piece of legislation that includes several tax credits supporting the deployment of clean energy and the growth of the nation’s clean technology manufacturing sector and supply chains. Critically, the bill has language to ensure these investments translate into good jobs and domestic manufacturing.