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Building Clean: Buy Local, Buy Healthy

The Energy Efficiency Products Database is supported by the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation and it highlights a broad range of energy efficiency housing products and forms part of a larger national initiative to accelerate the retrofit of multifamily, low-income facilities.

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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Testimony / Green Schools

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to U.S. Department of Energy RFI: Designing Equitable, Sustainable, Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs

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 / High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure

New Executive Order Will Promote Good, Union Jobs, Protect Workers and the Environment 

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

Ways and Means Reconciliation Package Provides Important Clean Energy and Manufacturing Tax Credits, including Critical Labor and Domestic Content Provisions, but Room for Improvement Remains

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.

Clean Vehicles and Fuels

Energy and Commerce Reconciliation Package Makes Great Strides to Improve Critical Infrastructure, Gaps Remain

The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday passed its budget reconciliation package. The package funds critical infrastructure efforts such as fully replacing lead service lines, improving the energy efficiency of residential and public buildings, removing toxic chemicals from schools, modernizing hospitals, and expanding electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. In response to the passage of the package, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure

U.S. Rep. Phillips Joins Labor, Environmental, and Faith Leaders, and Suburban Elected Officials to Call for Investment in Bus Rapid Transit to Build Back Better

As Congress debates efforts to boost economic recovery and build back better, U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) today joined labor, environmental, and faith leaders, and suburban elected officials at an event advocating for federal investments in Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). At the event, Rep. Phillips and advocates urged investments in future BRT lines to expand transit and economic opportunity.

High Road Investment in Public Infrastructure

House Education & Labor Funding Bill Hit and Miss on Important Issues of School Infrastructure, Dislocated Workers

The House Committee on Education and Labor today marked up a $779.5 billion budget reconciliation bill funding the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor and other programs essential to supporting the nation’s students and workforce. In response to today’s markup, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:

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