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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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International Climate Agreements

BlueGreen Alliance Releases Policy Statement on Copenhagen

Dec 07, 2009

As world leaders negotiated a global agreement to reduce carbon emissions, the BlueGreen Alliance outlined its goals to reach an international agreement that reduces worldwide and U.S. emissions with the goal of creating good jobs in America.

Reports & Fact Sheets / International Climate Agreements

BlueGreen Alliance on Copenhagen

Dec 07, 2009

The BlueGreen Alliance released this policy statement as world leaders gathered in Copenhagen to negotiate a global agreement to address climate change.

Letters / International Climate Agreements

Environmentals Organizations Urge Legislaton That Prevents Carbon Leakage, Ensures Competitiveness

Dec 03, 2009

Six major environmental organizations sent this letter to the Senate in December outlining their desire for climate legislation that prevents carbon pollution leakage and ensures international competitiveness.

Press Releases & Statements / International Climate Agreements

Bringing BlueGreen to Copenhagen

Dec 01, 2009

The BlueGreen Alliance held several events throughout the COP 15 meetings in Copenhagen. Check out the attached flyer for more information.

Letters / Trade

Union, Environmental Coalition Urges Fair Trade Under Obama Administration

Mar 24, 2009

The BlueGreen Alliance joined a labor-environmental coalition urging the Obama administration to review pending and new trade agreements for impacts of our current trade model on development, workers’ rights, and the environment.

International Climate Agreements

BlueGreen Alliance Promotes Green Jobs at UN Climate Change Conference in Poland

Dec 03, 2008

The BlueGreen Alliance spotlighted the value of a “green recovery” for the United States at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), December 1-12, in Poznan, Poland.

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