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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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Blog / Industrial Transformation

The Defense Production Act: A Toolbox to Spur Clean Manufacturing

On June 6th, President Biden made waves among policy wonks and activists alike by invoking a Korean War-era law to revitalize manufacturing and take on the climate crisis. Citing authority under the Defense Production Act (DPA), the President gave a legal green light for the federal government to directly purchase five clean energy goods from U.S. manufacturers: solar panel parts, heat pumps, building insulation, green hydrogen inputs, and electric grid components.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Long Bay Lease Sale Illustrates Continued Growth in Offshore Wind Industry

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) yesterday convened a lease auction covering more than 110,000 acres in the Carolina Long Bay area. The sale totaled more than $300 million. The leases could enable development of an estimated 1.3 gigawatts of offshore wind energy.
In response to the conclusion of the lease sale, the BlueGreen Alliance released the a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Make Your Voice Heard: Tell the Virginia SCC to Support the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project and Ensure Maximum Benefits to Virginian Workers

The Virginia 2020 Clean Energy Economy Act requires that offshore wind energy projects maximize local economic benefits and prioritize jobs for historically disadvantaged workers and Virginia residents. The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) must certify that the CVOW project will deliver such benefits, and is now accepting written comments. Verbal Comments will be received by phone beginning at 10 a.m. on May 16.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Ørsted, NABTU Project Labor Agreement Illustrates what Renewables Done Right Look Like

Offshore wind developer Ørsted and North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) signed today a first-of-its-kind national project labor agreement (PLA) for offshore wind projects along the Atlantic Coast. Today’s announcement builds upon a November 2020 memorandum of understanding creating a partnership on future offshore wind projects.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

California BlueGreen Alliance 2022 State Policy Agenda

This Policy Agenda presents BlueGreen Alliance California’s policy goals for 2022. Below, we describe
priority campaigns and practical demands of policymakers in the economic sectors within which we are
working. BGA CA stands ready to work with all government, non-profit, and private sector stakeholders to
advance these intersecting goals, and others, through legislation and regulation in 2022. We hope you will
join us.

Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema Joined Labor Leaders for Event Focused on Infrastructure, Advanced Energy Investments at Manufacturing Facility 

Today, U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema joined the BlueGreen Alliance and labor leaders from around the state for a tour of Digital Building Components’ Fabrication Plant and a roundtable to discuss the economic benefits of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and federal investments in advanced energy and infrastructure.

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