Buy America requirements as laid out in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Build America, Buy America Act, provide essential market signals to the industry that the clean technologies of today and tomorrow—on which we will rely to meet climate and environmental justice goals—must be made in the United States. Buy America requirements put companies that are making meaningful investments in the nation’s clean technology supply chain—and the manufacturing workers who make those technologies—first in line to benefit from public dollars like those administered by the Clean Ports Program.

While the BlueGreen Alliance supports narrowly tailored waivers of Buy America requirements, this proposed general applicability waiver does not strike a balance between two explicit priorities of the Build America, Buy America Act and the Clean Ports Program: building a domestic supply chain for clean technologies, and deploying those clean technologies to meet the climate moment and improve air quality in disadvantaged communities.

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