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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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Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Joins Center for American Progress and environmental leaders in a letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury on Credit Enhancements Pertaining to Prevailing Wages and Registered Apprenticeship Requirements in the Inflation Reduction Act

These incentives are the keystone of the climate, justice, and jobs strategy that motivated this legislation, and efficient implementation of them will be critical to meeting our climate goals.

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance responds to the Department of Treasury & Internal Revenue Service’s Request for Comments on the Inflation Reduction Act Regarding Prevailing Wage, Apprenticeship, Domestic Content, and Energy Communities Requirements

These tax credits present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to drastically reduce emissions while providing good union jobs in the clean economy and driving growth in U.S. manufacturing. At the same time, they will increase equity in the transition to a clean economy by maximizing the benefits of this job growth in communities disproportionately impacted by energy transition.

Testimony & Comments / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Department of the Treasury & Internal Revenue Service’s Request for Comments on Energy Security Tax Credits for Manufacturing under 48C and 45X

These tax credits present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to dramatically reduce greenhouse emissions, as well as toxic air, water, and land pollution, while providing good union jobs in the clean economy and driving growth in U.S. manufacturing.

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The BlueGreen Alliance Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Revolution Wind LLC’s Proposed Revolution Wind Farm Offshore Rhode Island

Offshore wind energy presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to advance this mission if developed in an environmentally responsible manner, with high road labor standards and attention to environmental justice. We thank BOEM for its diligent efforts to advance offshore wind in a manner that lifts up the working class with family-sustaining union jobs, delivers benefits for communities that are hardest hit by climate change and economic inequality, and protects wildlife, critical habitat, and our nation’s natural resources.

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to BOEM’s RFI on Commercial Leasing for Wind Energy Development on the Gulf of Maine Outer Continental Shelf

Offshore wind energy presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to advance this mission if developed in an environmentally responsible manner, with high road labor standards and attention to environmental justice. We thank BOEM for its diligent efforts to advance offshore wind in the U.S. and attention to doing it right, in a way that lifts up the working class with family-sustaining union jobs, delivers benefits for communities that are hardest hit by climate change and economic inequality, and protects wildlife, critical habitat, and our nation’s natural resources. 

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