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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 / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

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).

Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

A Guide to Methane Mitigation Part One: A Primer on EPA’s Proposed Methane Rule and the Methane Emissions Reduction Program

The following blog is part one of a two-part series authored by BlueGreen Alliance Associate Policy Advisor Sean Gordon.  With the threat of catastrophic climate change looming on the horizon, policymakers in the United States are making a concerted effort to mitigate methane pollution. Methane is a greenhouse gas (GHG) that is nearly 80 times more…

Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

Clean Manufacturing Leadership Act Will Transform Washington’s Industrial Sector

The Washington State Legislature delivered the Washington Clean Manufacturing Leadership Act (2SSB 5269) to Governor Inslee’s desk, where it awaits his signature. 2SSB 5269 creates a statewide industrial strategy to strengthen Washington’s existing manufacturing base. The bill harnesses the more than $50 billion in industrial transformation investments in the Inflation Reduction Act to build a robust, low-carbon manufacturing economy in Washington State.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

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 / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

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. 

Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

EPA Proposes Robust Vehicle Emissions Standards, Accelerating the Nation Towards Climate Goals

This morning, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new light- and heavy-duty vehicle greenhouse gas and tailpipe emissions standards that chart a course toward significantly reduced emissions from the nation’s future vehicle fleets. The new standards, which apply to vehicles beginning with Model Year 2027, represent one part of the broader whole-of-government approach the administration is taking to reduce emissions from the transportation sector and meet climate goals. It is essential, however, that the standards also contribute to the protection and creation of high-quality, union jobs in the auto manufacturing sector. 

Testimony & Comments / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities

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.

Blog / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Smart Industrial Policy in the Updated Clean Vehicle Credit

By Reem Rayef, Senior Policy Advisor With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last year came Congress’ framework of an updated clean vehicle consumer tax credit that strikes a tough balance. It accelerates the deployment of clean and electric vehicles (EVs), while incentivizing automakers to secure and bring their auto manufacturing supply chains to…

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

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. 

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