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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.

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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Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FEDERAL FUNDING FREEZE PUTS JOBS, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND WORKER SAFETY AT RISK

January 28, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration ordered a freeze on all federal grant and loan payments late last night, except for funding paid directly to individuals. An announcement of the pause was released from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) late in the evening.  The sweeping interruption to funding includes payouts from the…

Press Releases & Statements / Supply Chain Development

Navigating the Build America, Buy America Act

The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BGAF) and Ecomedes today hosted a webinar exploring the Build America, Buy America (BABA) Act. BABA—part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)—strengthens and expands “Buy America” requirements for federally financed infrastructure projects. This new policy has significantly increased the need for U.S. manufacturers to identify their products as BABA compliant. The webinar highlighted and built upon the BlueGreen Alliance’s “Making BABA Work for American Manufacturers” guide, released in December.  

Press Releases & Statements / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

BlueGreen Alliance Unveils Latest Auto Industry Map for Domestic Manufacturing Advocates

The BlueGreen Alliance unveiled a new tool that maps the domestic auto supply chain and tracks federal investments allocated to grow the industry. The map—developed by the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation—features more than 2,000 U.S. manufacturing facilities in the fuel-efficient and electric automotive supply chain, including assemblers and suppliers of electric vehicles and their components, internal combustion engine vehicles and their components, hybrid assemblers, and fuel agnostic suppliers.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Thanks President Biden for Working for Working People, Climate Action

President Joe Biden will deliver a farewell address to the nation this evening as his term as president of the United States comes to a close. Over the course of the past four years, some of the Biden-Harris administration’s most significant achievements are:  The Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in U.S.…

Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

Treasury Finalizes 45X Rule for a Better Domestic Manufacturing Sector

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 / Clean Energy and Advanced Technology Manufacturing

Latest Investment in Coal Communities Shows Biden-Harris Commitment to Building a Clean Economy for All

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of 14 projects to address critical clean energy supply chain vulnerabilities and grow domestic clean energy manufacturing in 12 states. The funding from the Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program will help revitalize communities affected by coal mine or coal power plant closures.   

Press Releases & Statements / Industrial Transformation

Middletown Works Investments Showcase How Biden-Harris Industrial Policy is Promoting Innovation in Manufacturing

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. 

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