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Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

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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Transmission

MISO Delivers 115 GW of Clean Energy and Thousands of Jobs to the Midwest with its Latest Investment

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) announced 488 new transmission projects that will deliver clean energy to the Midwest. MISO approved over $30 billion in investments through its Long Range Transmission Planning Tranche 2.1. These projects are expected to deliver 5,053 miles of expanded transmission, provide critical interregional connections, and boost local grid reliability.  

Press Releases & Statements / Onshore Clean Energy

USDA New ERA Awards to Invest in Clean Power Across Nine States

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announcedinvestments from the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act to lower energy costs and grow clean power across nine states. The $3 billion funding from the New Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program will go to rural energy cooperatives in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Minnesota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. 

Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy

Potential Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf—Request for Competitive Interest

We welcome responsible development of offshore wind energy in the Gulf of Mexico and are supportive of U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) leasing Wind Energy Area (WEA) options C and D, as described in the public notice. Whatever leasing path BOEM pursues must meet high labor and environmental standards. This includes bid credits or lease stipulations related to workforce development, supply chain plans, project labor agreements (PLAs), and environmental mitigation and monitoring, in addition to other criteria laid out in this comment. You can read our recommendations to BOEM in these comments.

Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy

Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Central Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf-Central Atlantic 2-Call for Information and Nominations

We are encouraged by the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to hold a lease sale in the Central Atlantic in 2025. The states in this region will require more offshore wind leasing to meet their clean energy goals and we are happy to see this next step towards identifying new wind energy areas. States like Maryland are poised to be an offshore wind supply chain hub and more leases will help support the growing offshore wind industry and the resulting job creation in the region. As U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) considers the future lease areas in the central Atlantic, many factors should be considered, including creating high-quality, union jobs; training and employment benefits; domestic supply chains; ensuring environmental justice; and environmental protection. You can read our recommendations to BOEM in these comments.

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