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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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Water Infrastructure

EPA Guidance for Use of BIL Water Funding Will Maximize Benefits to Workers, Communities

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released guidance related to the use of funding included in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to repair, replace, and modernize the nation’s aging water infrastructure. The BIL invests $55 billion in water systems—the largest federal investment ever—including a little over $15 billion to fund the replacement of lead service…

Press Releases / For America, By America

West Virginians Call for Sen. Joe Manchin to Stand With Workers and Families in Two New BlueGreen Alliance Ads

Today, the BlueGreen Alliance released two new videos featuring members from West Virginia local unions—the United Steelworkers (USW), American Federation of Teachers West Virginia (AFT-WV), Service Employees International Union (SEIU)—and members of the National Black Lung Association, including a former mineworker suffering from Black Lung Disease and a woman who lost her husband to the disease.

Water Infrastructure

BlueGreen Alliance Applauds Senate Passage of the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021

The U.S. Senate today voted to pass the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021. The bill authorizes funds for replacing lead service lines, reauthorizes the Drinking Water and Clean Water State Revolving Funds, makes permanent the Buy America provision in the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, starts a pilot program at the U.S. Environmental Protection agency for low-income water assistance, and authorizes funding for rural and disadvantaged communities.

Research / Good Jobs

Misled: The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Agenda on Working Families and the Environment

As the current presidential term comes to an end, the nation is at a natural moment for taking stock. In evaluating the Trump administration, Americans will want to know: has this President improved my situation in life and is the nation’s future brighter? Analysis of a range of policy actions made by the Trump administration reveals that overwhelmingly the answer to that fundamental question for working families is a resounding “no.”

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