Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The White House finalized “Tier 3 Standards” for cleaner gasoline. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates the standards could prevent between 820 and 2,400 premature deaths annually and prevent 1.8 million lost school or work days.
Infrastructure and Community Resilience
President Obama will visit the Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance Facility and Union Depot in St. Paul, MN to unveil a new $302 billion proposal to invest in America’s infrastructure like crumbling roads and bridges.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Repairing Minnesota will create good jobs, make our systems more efficient and less polluting, and safeguard communities from the impact of climate change, like severe weather such as floods and droughts.
Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure
In the BlueGreen Alliance came out in support of two initiatives introduced by Senator Ed Markey (MA) to fix America’s natural gas distribution pipelines.
Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Today in Lansing, labor and environmental leaders released a new report showing an estimated 119,300 jobs could be created by making much-needed investments in roads and bridges, water, wastewater, transit, energy, and communication systems.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Repairing Michigan will create good jobs, make our systems more efficient and less polluting, and safeguard communities from the impact of climate change, like severe weather such as floods and droughts.
Infrastructure and Community Resilience
The July unemployment statistics show the economy gained 162,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.4 percent. This is progress toward building a more prosperous economy and lays the track work for solid economic growth over the next year.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Buildings
Public schools have long been a neglected part of our infrastructure system. It’s time to lift them up as of the clean, green, resilient environments we need at the heart of our efforts to rebuild a nation that is better able to address climate change.