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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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Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

Testimony of Jason Walsh to the House Committee on Energy & Commerce

In his testimony, Jason Walsh highlighted that America’s offshore wind industry is growing quickly and provides us with a potential model for  creating quality, family-sustaining jobs while helping to drive the nation’s clean energy future. By supporting a wide variety of workforce development strategies, including union training and registered apprenticeship programs, the Offshore Wind Jobs…

Blog / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities

New Report Card on Infrastructure Shows Dire Need to Build Back Better

Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) releases a Report Card grading the nation’s infrastructure from “A” to “F.” In 2017, the Infrastructure Report Card remained stagnant at a “D+”— the same grade the United States received in 2013. The current year’s report incrementally improved to a “C- ” scorecard— five categories increased and just one category decreased in their benchmarks. This improvement, however marginal, is the first time the metric has risen out of the D range in 20 years. Nonetheless, the report once again plainly demonstrates that America’s infrastructure is falling apart at the seams and we are not making long-term strides to fix the basic systems we rely on for clean water, energy, to communicate with each other, or to get from place to place. 

Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

Comments on the Atlantic Wind Lease Sale 9 (ATLW–9) for Commercial Leasing for Wind Power on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Carolina Long Bay Area—Proposed Sale Notice

The BlueGreen Alliance appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments to inform the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) proposal to offer for sale a commercial wind energy lease in the Carolina Long Bay area offshore North Carolina (Lease Area).

Reports & Fact Sheets / Social Infrastructure

Social Infrastructure: A Platform to Ensure the Public Sector, Public Services, and Workers are Resilient for Future Crises and Climate Change

Americans face three ongoing interconnected crises: economic inequality, racial inequality, and climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic cast a harsh spotlight on the severely disproportionate impacts of these crises. It also exposed the decades-long disinvestment in our public sector and public services. Social infrastructure—the services required to promote the health and economic, cultural, and social well-being of the community—has too long been neglected and underfunded.

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