Infrastructure and Community Resilience
The Senate begins the markup of bipartisan legislation that would fund national transportation projects. We urge the Senate to move quickly to pass a strong, long-term transportation bill. It’s time to invest in a stronger future.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Mother’s Day celebrates what we do together to launch each generation into a world where they can prosper and thrive. The transformation that cars have undergone gives us some signposts for the road to a brighter future for parents and kids.
Infrastructure and Community Resilience
The Bureau of Labor Statistics unveiled the April employment situation, showing the economy gained 288,000 jobs. The unemployment rate was lowered to 6.3 percent.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Rebuilding and upgrading Washington’s infrastructure gives us a great opportunity to create tens of thousands of family wage union jobs, reduce income inequality, make our economy more efficient and productive, reduce climate-‐disrupting pollution, and protect our communities from severe weather effects caused by climate change. In this report, the BlueGreen Alliance identifies needed investment—some of…
Infrastructure and Community Resilience
A new report shows Washington State could create or sustain 77,900 jobs by repairing and updating the state’s infrastructure.
Letters / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Pittsburgh City Councilman Dan Gilman on Earth Day introduced a Will of Council in support of shoring up infrastructure investments to protect communities from the worsening effects of climate change.
Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Councilman Dan Gilman joined labor and environmental leaders today—on Earth Day—to call for swift passage of a resolution introduced supporting efforts to repair Pittsburgh’s crumbling infrastructure systems.
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The Department of Energy today announced that $16 billion in loan authority is available to automakers and suppliers through the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan (ATVM) program.
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The White House finalized “Tier 3 Standards” for cleaner gasoline. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates the standards could prevent between 820 and 2,400 premature deaths annually and prevent 1.8 million lost school or work days.
Infrastructure and Community Resilience
President Obama will visit the Metro Transit Light Rail Operations and Maintenance Facility and Union Depot in St. Paul, MN to unveil a new $302 billion proposal to invest in America’s infrastructure like crumbling roads and bridges.