Climate Change & the Clean Economy
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the first “minibus” spending bill for fiscal year 2021. The package includes funding for a number of departments and programs including the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Toolkit / Safe Chemicals, Safe Jobs
This toolkit is intended to represent policy responses to COVID-19 that can help workers affected by the coronavirus, using examples drawn from state executive orders and legislation.
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Former Vice President Joe Biden today released a sweeping plan to address climate change, create and sustain good, union jobs for workers, and invest in disadvantaged communities and workers. Following the announcement, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
The U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis today unveiled its long-awaited committee report. The report represents the culmination of more than a year of investigation into solutions to the ongoing climate crisis including through public hearings and a public request for information.
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Alongside the BlueGreen Alliance and partners and allies from coal communities across the country, Just Transition Fund today released the National Economic Transition platform. The platform is the product of a year-long collaboration, bringing together local, tribal, and labor leaders with public, private, and non-profit partners to develop a policy framework and priorities to invest in communities and workers hit hard by the decline of the coal industry.
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Leaders from the BlueGreen Alliance—a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations—today released a national agenda to rebuild American manufacturing, cut pollution, and create and sustain the good-paying jobs necessary to rebuild the middle class and help fix America’s beleaguered economy.