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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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Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Washington State Bridges the Transition to Clean Energy Jobs with the Climate-Ready Communities Act

Governor Jay Inslee yesterday signed the Climate-Ready Communities Act, legislation that establishes the Washington Climate Corps Network. The Washington Climate Corps Network will identify and grow climate-related service opportunities for young adults and veterans. People participating in the program will help create clean energy, low-carbon, climate-resilient communities around the state.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Best Practices for Implementation: How the Lessons from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Can Ensure the Inflation Reduction Act Delivers Good Jobs and Community Benefits

Federal agencies are playing a crucial role in uplifting workers and communities as they develop programmatic requirements and incentives to implement BIL and Inflation Reduction Act investments. In parallel, the Biden administration laid out clear commitments to maximize the job quality, equity, and community benefits of these laws and other federal spending through executive orders and initiatives. By working to more consistently apply the Good Jobs Principles and associated metrics across Inflation Reduction Act and BIL-funded programs, agencies can help advance equity and rebuild the middle class.

Blog / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

Washington State Takes Charge of its Clean Manufacturing Future

The road to net-zero emissions requires rapid acceleration of clean energy technology and low-carbon materials production. The Evergreen State is well-positioned to lead this clean manufacturing revolution and grow a new generation of high-road jobs. Washington is already home to world-class production facilities for materials like steel rebar and aluminum plate, and its strong climate commitments and highly-skilled manufacturing workforce are two cornerstones of a robust low-carbon industrial economy.

Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

A Guide to Methane Mitigation Part 2: How EPA’s Proposed Methane Rule and the Methane Emissions Reduction Program Work Together

The following blog is part two of a two part series authored by Sean Gordon, BlueGreen Alliance Associate Policy Advisor In part one of this blog series, we explored the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2022 proposed rule for methane pollution from the oil and gas industry and the Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP) established…

Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

A Guide to Methane Mitigation Part One: A Primer on EPA’s Proposed Methane Rule and the Methane Emissions Reduction Program

The following blog is part one of a two-part series authored by BlueGreen Alliance Associate Policy Advisor Sean Gordon.  With the threat of catastrophic climate change looming on the horizon, policymakers in the United States are making a concerted effort to mitigate methane pollution. Methane is a greenhouse gas (GHG) that is nearly 80 times more…

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Gov. Evers, IUPAT Members, Join Wisconsin Mayors, BlueGreen Alliance for Event on Maximizing Benefits of Federal Investments

Governor Tony Evers today joined members of the International Union of Painters (IUPAT), mayors from around the state, Wisconsin Conservation Voters, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, and the BlueGreen Alliance for a tour of the IUPAT training facility in Fitchburg, WI. The event focused on maximizing the impact of investments in two historic federal laws—the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act—for all Wisconsinites. 

Blog / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

Don’t Workers Deserve the Everything Bagel?

Within six months of President Biden’s signature on the Inflation Reduction Act, companies announced a wave of solar, battery, and other clean tech manufacturing investments that will create more than 100,000 jobs across 31 states to make the nuts and bolts of clean energy. Many of the job openings will be in communities that have endured decades of divestment, deindustrialization, and economic insecurity. That response to the Inflation Reduction Act’s unprecedented federal funding is faster than anyone predicted. It offers an early validation of the strategy behind the law: to wield public investments to support climate action, good jobs, and greater equity at the same time. But some prominent commentators argue this is trying to do too much. Ezra Klein, for example, writes that such multi-pronged goals suffer from “everything bagel liberalism” that threatens the success of these landmark investments. 

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