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Building Clean: Buy Local, Buy Healthy

The Energy Efficiency Products Database is supported by the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation and it highlights a broad range of energy efficiency housing products and forms part of a larger national initiative to accelerate the retrofit of multifamily, low-income facilities.

Good 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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Good Jobs

PRO Act Will Help Build Clean, Thriving, and Equitable Economy for All

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act was today introduced in the U.S. House by Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and U.S. Senate by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA). “If we’re going to tackle systematic racial and economic injustice and build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy for all workers, we need strong unions. The PRO Act ensures workers have a fair shot to band together and collectively bargain for better wages and benefits, safer workplaces, a cleaner environment, and a better future,” said BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh.

Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Biden Adopts Historic Whole of Government Approach to Climate Action

President Joe Biden will sign today executive orders aimed at adopting a historic “whole of government” approach to addressing the climate crisis at the scale and scope demanded by science with solutions centered on achieving economic and environmental justice and quality, union job creation. Included in the actions that will be signed today are measures to direct and coordinate federal agencies under White House leadership, help impacted coal communities and workers, direct federal agencies to institute science and evidence based decision-making, prioritizing federal procurement of clean, domestic-made fleets, and center climate in our foreign policy. In response, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:

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BlueGreen Alliance Praises Biden Administration for Protecting Workers

President Joe Biden today took executive action directing the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) to begin consideration of issuing an emergency temporary standard to protect workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, President Biden issued an executive order taking the first steps toward invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) to ensure that the nation has access to the personal protective equipment needed during the pandemic. In response, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:

Climate Change & the Clean Economy

Biden Covid-19 Relief Plan Offers Much Needed Aid for Working Families, Protections for Workers

President-elect Joe Biden today released his American Rescue Plan, a Covid-19 relief plan that includes among other provisions $1,400 stimulus payments, an extension of boosted unemployment insurance, funding for vaccine distribution and delivery, funding for cities, states, schools, child care, and would require the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health and Administration (OSHA) to issue enforceable rules to protect workers during the crisis.

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