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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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BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE NAMES ERIC STEEN AS NEW EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

October 8, 2024 The BlueGreen Alliance (BGA) today announced Eric Steen as the organization’s new Executive Vice President (EVP) of Strategy and Impact.   Steen has been with BGA for 15 years, elevating the organization’s policy platform and vision through external communications. He most recently served as the organization’s Communications Director and has been a leader in environmental and labor…

Press Releases & Statements / Water Infrastructure

President Biden Announced Efforts to Ensure All Have Access to Safe, Clean Water at Milwaukee Event

President Biden traveled to Milwaukee today to announce the finalization of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s improvements to the nation’s Lead and Copper Rule. The new rule will build on the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to replace lead pipes around the country, including a $15 billion investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed in 2021.  

Press Releases & Statements / Transmission

BlueGreen Alliance Celebrates New Investment to Expand Clean Transmission in the United States

The U.S. Department of Energy today allocated $1.5 billion for four transmission projects across Maine, Oklahoma, New Mexico and the Southeast. These projects are funded by the Transmission Facilitation Program in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The investment will help spur 1,000 miles of new transmission lines across six states that are expected to transmit an additional…

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Federal Awards Will Restart Michigan Nuclear Plant, Securing Union Jobs and Promoting Clean Energy

The U.S. Departments of Energy (DOE) and Agriculture (USDA) announced today funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to help finance the repowering of the Holtec Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert Township, Michigan, and reduce energy costs for Michiganders. This includes a $1.52 billion loan guarantee to restore the nuclear plant and an additional $1.3 billion for…

Press Releases & Statements / Industrial Transformation

Middletown Works Investments Showcase How Biden-Harris Industrial Policy is Promoting Innovation in Manufacturing

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Cleveland Cliffs funding from their Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP) to get the first phase of a low-carbon steel project underway in Middletown, Ohio. The company plans to install a hydrogen-ready flex-fuel Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) plant and two electric melting furnaces at the facility. The hydrogen DRI process being used in the Middletown plant is a game-changing technology that promises dramatic reductions in the carbon intensity of primary steel and a boost to the competitiveness of US steelmaking. 

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Executive Order Focused on Worker Freedoms During Event in Michigan

A newly signed Executive Order by President Biden will create a task force led by the National Economic Council and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to ensure the administration is doing all it can under current law and going further to specify, “a clear list of labor standards that all federal agencies should look to prioritize.”

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