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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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Letters / Economic Development

U.S. Development Finance Corporation’s Reauthorization

Congress created the DFC to provide countries with an alternative to state-directed investments from authoritarian regimes. In theory, the DFC’s work should promote democratic governance, advance sustainability, and strengthen economic relationships that benefit both developing nations and the American people.   The BlueGreen Alliance shares the committee’s goal of ensuring that U.S. development finance advances our…

Press Releases & Statements / Fairness for Workers and Communities

Newsom Signs Bills to Reduce Industrial Pollution, Strengthen Workers’ Rights

Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed AB 1280 and SB 513 into law, two major steps forward to bolster California’s clean energy economy and strengthen worker protections. These laws will draw investments to decarbonize heavy industry, boost the state’s energy resilience, and keep businesses competitive while creating high-road, union jobs.  

Press Releases & Statements / Fairness for Workers and Communities

Coal Workers are the Trump Administration’s Last Consideration

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said it would hand out $625 million to try to extend the life of a handful of aging coal plants even as electric utilities across the country continue to invest in cleaner and more affordable sources of energy. Over 8 gigawatts of coal power are scheduled to be retired this year alone. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum also announced his department would release 13 million acres of federal land for coal.

Press Releases & Statements / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities

Trump Admininistration’s Latest Bad Move Will Roll Back Efforts to Fight Climate Change, Grow Clean Energy and Clean Manufacturing

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rule that would roll back the 2009 “Endangerment Finding.” The finding is the main federal tool for regulating greenhouse gases, like methane and carbon dioxide. It applies to every sector that emits greenhouse gases, including power plants, cars, landfills, and oil and gas operations.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

Senate GOP Budget Bill Sells Out Workers to Pad Billionaire Pockets

The U.S. Senate voted today to pass its budget bill. The Senate version of the bill claws back grant funding aiding the transition to a clean energy economy and upholds a rollback of clean energy and advanced manufacturing tax credits passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The budget bill puts 2 million jobs within the country’s burgeoning clean energy manufacturing footprint at risk. No Democratic Senators supported the bill. 

Testimony & Comments / Workers' Rights

Comment on Proposed Rule “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service” (RIN 3206-AO01)

We write in strong opposition to the Office of Personnel Management’s proposed rule titled “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service,” published on April 23, 2025. Contrary to its stated intentions, this proposed rule would severely undermine the integrity and professionalism of the federal civil service by
reviving and expanding upon the discredited “Schedule F” policy from the first Trump administration—rebranded as “Schedule Policy/Career.”

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