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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

Feb 12, 2023

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

Jul 25, 2019

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 / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance, Dozens of Organizations Call on House Committee on Natural Resource to Pass Strong Version of RECLAIM ACT

Jun 26, 2017

The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources will be voting on the Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More (RECLAIM) Act of 2017. The key to it’s success, however, is staying true to the original bill’s intent and guarding against efforts to water it down or kill it to appease special interests and Washington insiders.

Letters / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Opposes Deep Cuts to Key Programs for Workers and the Environment in the President’s FY18 Budget

May 24, 2017

The BlueGreen Alliance, as a coalition of the nation’s largest labor unions and environmental groups, collectively representing millions of members and supporters, wrote to members of Congress today to strongly oppose the damaging cuts to critical agencies and programs outlined in the President’s FY18 Budget.

Letters / Clean Economy Union Jobs

More Than 100 Organizations, Local Governments Urge Congress to Protect Coal Communities in Budget Process

May 17, 2017

More than 100 organizations, local governments, community development entities, and labor unions today sent a letter to Congress in support of funding for critical federal agencies and programs that have been most active in targeting assistance to communities and workers adapting to shifts in energy generation.

Letters / Chemical Safety

BlueGreen Alliance Letter to Senators Urging Them To Vote Against the Regulatory Accountability Act

May 16, 2017

As a coalition of the nation’s largest labor unions and environmental groups, collectively representing millions of members and supporters, the BlueGreen Alliance urged Senators to oppose S. 951, the Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) of 2017.

Letters / Chemical Safety

Over 100 Organizations Call on House, Senate to Fund U.S. Chemical Safety Board in FY 2018

May 04, 2017

Over 100 organizations wrote key members of the House and Senate to urge them to guarantee that the critical contribution this agency makes to the people of the United States continues by ensuring that the agency receives requested funding in the FY18 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. Thank you for your consideration.

Letters / Chemical Safety

Letter Opposing Senate Joint Resolution 28

Apr 25, 2017

In a letter to members of Congress, over 40 national and 30 state-based organizations sent a letter to Congress calling on members to protect first responders, industrial workers, communities and our nation’s infrastructure by vigorously opposing the CRA resolution and any other similar efforts to weaken national protections from chemical disasters.

Letters / Chemical Safety

BlueGreen Alliance Urges Senate to Oppose the REINS Act and the Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2017

Mar 14, 2017

The BlueGreen Alliance sent a letter to Senators calling on them to opposes these bills that are dangerous proposals for public health, workers, and the environment and would do nothing to help to the American people.

Letters / Chemical Safety

Labor, Environmental Groups Oppose Scott Pruitt’s Nomination as EPA Administrator

Jan 17, 2017

Members of the BlueGreen Alliance urged Senators to reject Scott Pruitt’s nomination as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Letters / Chemical Safety

Members of BlueGreen Alliance Oppose Andrew Puzder’s Nomination as Labor Secretary

Jan 13, 2017

America has a significant opportunity to create and maintain quality jobs, drive U.S. manufacturing growth, and secure American competitiveness, while reducing toxic exposure and pollution and protecting our climate and environment. Our U.S. Labor Secretary should see the value that innovating, building, and installing the clean economy can create across the country.

Letters / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Letter to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder

Jan 13, 2016

Members of the Michigan BlueGreen Alliance sent a letter to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder urging for the State Plan to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan carbon emissions reductions in a way that will bolster the state’s economy.

Letters / International Climate Agreements

Labor, Environmental Leaders Call for Just Transition Language in Paris Climate Agreement

Nov 03, 2015

Labor and environmental leaders wrote to U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern to thank him for supporting inclusion of Just Transition language in negotiating text for the eventual Paris agreement.

Letters / Trade

BlueGreen Alliance Letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission

Oct 19, 2015

The BlueGreen Alliance weighs in on the effort to expand items included in the Environmental Goods Agreement being negotiated by the U.S. Trade Representative.

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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

All Updates & Resources

BlueGreen Alliance, Dozens of Organizations Call on House Committee on Natural Resource to Pass Strong Version of RECLAIM ACT

BlueGreen Alliance Opposes Deep Cuts to Key Programs for Workers and the Environment in the President’s FY18 Budget

More Than 100 Organizations, Local Governments Urge Congress to Protect Coal Communities in Budget Process

BlueGreen Alliance Letter to Senators Urging Them To Vote Against the Regulatory Accountability Act

Over 100 Organizations Call on House, Senate to Fund U.S. Chemical Safety Board in FY 2018

Letter Opposing Senate Joint Resolution 28

BlueGreen Alliance Urges Senate to Oppose the REINS Act and the Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2017

Labor, Environmental Groups Oppose Scott Pruitt’s Nomination as EPA Administrator

Members of BlueGreen Alliance Oppose Andrew Puzder’s Nomination as Labor Secretary

BlueGreen Alliance Letter to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder

Labor, Environmental Leaders Call for Just Transition Language in Paris Climate Agreement

BlueGreen Alliance Letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission