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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.

Good 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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Reports & Fact Sheets / Good Jobs

Best Practices for Implementation: How the Lessons from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Can Ensure the Inflation Reduction Act Delivers Good Jobs and Community Benefits

Federal agencies are playing a crucial role in uplifting workers and communities as they develop programmatic requirements and incentives to implement BIL and Inflation Reduction Act investments. In parallel, the Biden administration laid out clear commitments to maximize the job quality, equity, and community benefits of these laws and other federal spending through executive orders and initiatives. By working to more consistently apply the Good Jobs Principles and associated metrics across Inflation Reduction Act and BIL-funded programs, agencies can help advance equity and rebuild the middle class.

Letters / Clean Infrastructure

The BlueGreen Alliance Joins Coalition in Sending A Letter to the Congress Requesting Robust 2024 Energy and Water Appropriations Funding for High-Capacity Transmission Deployment and Research

As companies and organizations committed to building America’s clean energy future, we write to request that Fiscal Year 2024 Energy and Water Appropriations provide robust funding for high-capacity transmission deployment and research through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Deployment Office (GDO) and Office of Electricity (OE).

Press Releases / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure

Gov. Evers, IUPAT Members, Join Wisconsin Mayors, BlueGreen Alliance for Event on Maximizing Benefits of Federal Investments

Governor Tony Evers today joined members of the International Union of Painters (IUPAT), mayors from around the state, Wisconsin Conservation Voters, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, and the BlueGreen Alliance for a tour of the IUPAT training facility in Fitchburg, WI. The event focused on maximizing the impact of investments in two historic federal laws—the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act—for all Wisconsinites. 

Blog / Clean Infrastructure

Don’t Workers Deserve the Everything Bagel?

Within six months of President Biden’s signature on the Inflation Reduction Act, companies announced a wave of solar, battery, and other clean tech manufacturing investments that will create more than 100,000 jobs across 31 states to make the nuts and bolts of clean energy. Many of the job openings will be in communities that have endured decades of divestment, deindustrialization, and economic insecurity. That response to the Inflation Reduction Act’s unprecedented federal funding is faster than anyone predicted. It offers an early validation of the strategy behind the law: to wield public investments to support climate action, good jobs, and greater equity at the same time. But some prominent commentators argue this is trying to do too much. Ezra Klein, for example, writes that such multi-pronged goals suffer from “everything bagel liberalism” that threatens the success of these landmark investments. 

Testimony & Comments / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Request For Information on Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants

Done right, the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants represent a critical pathway through which EPA can support clean energy deployment, pollution reduction, and climate goals. The block grants can achieve those goals while creating good union jobs, growing domestic manufacturing, and delivering public health and environmental benefits to the workers and communities that need it most.

Press Releases / Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Maryland Passes the POWER Act to Expand Offshore Wind, Good Jobs

 Today the Maryland General Assembly passed the Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources (POWER) Act. This legislation increases Maryland’s offshore wind (OSW) goals to 8.5 gigawatts by 2031 and establishes high-road labor standards across OSW manufacturing, construction, operations, and maintenance through the requirement for Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) and Labor Peace Agreements (LPAs). The POWER Act also initiates a state process to coordinate transmission infrastructure and prioritize in-state manufacturing. 

Press Releases / Buy Clean

White House Senior Advisor Ali Zaidi and Tim Ryan featured at BlueGreen Alliance and Third Way Event Buy Clean America

Today, BlueGreen Alliance and Third Way hosted a summit at the Hamilton Live to discuss the future of Buy Clean and industrial policy and the importance of worker-centered policies. Policies that will not only help create a more affordable, reliable, and secure clean economy, but will create good-paying jobs for middle-class families in every American community.

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