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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 / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The BlueGreen Alliance Comments on the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions Phase 2

By investing to grow clean energy and modernize our grid; repair our failing roads, bridges, and water systems; improve the efficiency and health of our buildings; and transform our transportation systems, we can boost our economy and create millions of good jobs while also reducing pollution, combatting climate change, and making our communities healthier and safer. 

Testimony & Comments / Natural Infrastructure

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s Request For Information on the Creation of the Responsible Carbon Management Initiative

All sectors of society must take action to reduce emissions to limit the disastrous impacts climate change is causing our communities and part of the pathway to limiting warming will include carbon management technologies. We can rapidly reduce emissions and simultaneously develop and deploy responsible carbon management and we must do both. 

Press Releases & Statements / Buy Clean

Gov. Kotek Signs Landmark Bill for Oregon’s Labor and Environmental Future Into Law

Oregon State Governor Tina Kotek signed House Bill 3332 into law at an event today, reinforcing Oregon’s commitment to local industries and cleaner infrastructure by championing domestically-produced iron and steel in public projects. The new law includes a grant initiative to support small businesses as they work to meet Oregon’s strong domestic production benchmarks.

Testimony & Comments / Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s Proposed Pipeline Safety: Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair Rule

Investing in methane mitigation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, smog- and soot-forming compounds, and toxic pollution, make workers and communities around the pipelines safer and healthier, and generate and support good-paying jobs. Reducing Methane Leaks is a Win-Win-Win for Workers, Communities, and the Climate.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Benefits of Inflation Reduction Act Already Being Seen One Year In

One year ago today, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, putting the nation on a path to clean up the nation’s air and water and reduce greenhouse gas emissions up to 42% by 2030. Over the last year, the law has already begun to revitalize U.S. manufacturing, grow clean energy, and support and create good union jobs across the country.

Testimony & Comments / Buildings

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to Proposed IRS Regulations on Accessibility of Tax Credits Through Elective Pay to Accelerate Clean Energy Deployment

We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the proposed IRS Regulations on Elective Pay to ensure the maximum uptake of these uncapped credits. These credits will support U.S. climate and equity goals and will create good jobs that are built into the tax credits through incentives for using high-road labor standards.

Letters / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities

The BlueGreen Alliance Joins Letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Urging the Adoption of Stronger and More Comprehensive Lead and Copper Rules

We urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to immediately propose Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) that comprehensively address roadblocks in finishing the job. While the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the American Rescue Plan created funding to replace lead service lines, the states hardest-hit by this public health emergency need additional support and clear requirements to ensure appropriate corrosion control treatment to address lead-containing premise pluming and the complete removal of all lead pipes from their communities within 10 years. 

Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Request for Information on National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (NIETC) Designation

Corridors of National Interest will help strengthen and expand transmission infrastructure necessary to reduce carbon emissions, increase clean energy, and create and maintain high-quality union jobs across the country. Transmission deployment and grid expansion critically need the direction and certainty that these designations will create. 

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