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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 / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

The U.S. Department of Energy Awards $500 Million for Potential New Aluminum Facility in Kentucky

Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $500 million to fund a new Century Aluminum facility. The funding is provided by DOE’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations’ Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP). The project is expected to create roughly 1,000 permanent high-wage union jobs and 5,500 construction jobs. Century Aluminum will work with job training…

Press Releases & Statements / Industrial Transformation

The U.S. Department of Energy Awards $500 Million for Middletown Works Steel Plant

Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $500 million to fund and industrial transformation project at Cleveland Cliffs’ Middletown Works facility in Ohio. The funding is provided by DOE’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations’ Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP). The project is expected to create 170 permanent jobs and 1,200 temporary union construction jobs, while…

Press Releases & Statements / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities

BlueGreen Alliance Helps State and Community Leaders Navigate Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Process

As community leaders and elected officials work to unlock billions in federal funding to reduce climate pollution, the BlueGreen Alliance has released a new user guide. Job Quality and Community Benefits in the Climate Pollution Reduction Implementation Grants: A User Guide breaks down the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), offering information on how to meet application criteria and how to create high-quality jobs, engage communities, and develop community benefits. 

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on President Biden’s State of the Union Address

President Joe Biden this evening delivered the annual State of the Union speech. In his speech, President Biden commented on the importance of strong unions and reiterated his support for the fight for workers’ rights and laid out a positive vision for the future of our country.  Following the president’s speech, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy

BlueGreen Alliance Submits Comments on Draft Environmental Assessment for Commercial Wind Lease Issuance and Site Assessment Activities on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia

The BlueGreen Alliance submitted comments to BOEM on a Draft Environmental Assessment for Commercial Wind Lease Issuance and Site Assessment Activities on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

New Research on Federal Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Climate Investments Shows Immense Job Opportunities and Workforce Needs 

A new report from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) examines labor supply, demand, and potential shortages from new U.S. clean energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure laws: the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and CHIPS and Science Act.

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