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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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Testimony & Comments / Chemical Safety

BlueGreen Alliance Comments on Proposed Rule: Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Rule Under the Clean Air Act

Too many Americans have had to evacuate, shelter in place, or race to pick up their children from school as an industrial fire burns or a chemical release heads their way. The BlueGreen Alliance requests that the Environmental Protection Agency take action to protect industrial workers, fenceline communities, first responders, and our nation’s infrastructure by strengthening the Chemical Disaster Rule with a people first approach.

Blog / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities

New Report Card on Infrastructure Shows Dire Need to Build Back Better

Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) releases a Report Card grading the nation’s infrastructure from “A” to “F.” In 2017, the Infrastructure Report Card remained stagnant at a “D+”— the same grade the United States received in 2013. The current year’s report incrementally improved to a “C- ” scorecard— five categories increased and just one category decreased in their benchmarks. This improvement, however marginal, is the first time the metric has risen out of the D range in 20 years. Nonetheless, the report once again plainly demonstrates that America’s infrastructure is falling apart at the seams and we are not making long-term strides to fix the basic systems we rely on for clean water, energy, to communicate with each other, or to get from place to place. 

Workers' Rights

PRO Act Crucial to Protecting the Rights of Workers, Growing Thriving, Equitable Economy

The United States House of Representatives today passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The PRO Act is designed to ensure workers can band together to negotiate better wages and safer working conditions by ending prohibitions on collective and class action litigation; prohibiting employers from permanently replacing striking employees; and amending how employees are defined to ensure that no one is misclassified as an independent contractor. In addition, it would strengthen remedies and enforcement for employees who are exercising their rights; create a mediation and arbitration process for new unions; protect against captive audience meetings; and streamline National Labor Relations Board procedures.

Letters / Chemical Safety

BlueGreen Alliance urges withdrawal of a proposed rule regarding the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards

On January 6, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) posted a proposed rule in the Federal Register that would remove 49 explosive chemicals from Appendix A of the Chemical Facility Anti- Terrorism Standard (CFATS). CISA explains that the intent of their proposal is to reduce the regulatory and compliance burden…

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