Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The Trump administration is expected tomorrow to release a rule dramatically weakening the nation’s globally competitive fuel economy and vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards. A BlueGreen Alliance analysis estimated a rollback of the standards could cost at least 90,000 future jobs in American manufacturing.
Toolkit / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The Trump administration is taking action to deeply weaken America’s world-leading fuel economy and vehicle greenhouse gas standards. That action is bad for workers and the economy.
Blog / Supply Chain Development
In 2008, The United States Department of Energy Department examined the impact of the extended Daylight Saving Time on energy consumption in the United States and found that Daylight Saving Time saved about 0.5% in total electricity per day. While this might not sound like a lot, it adds up to electricity savings of 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours—or…
Blog / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
The president’s 2021 budget cuts efforts to ensure worker and community health and safety, spur U.S. manufacturing and innovation, invest in the communities hardest hit by America’s transition to cleaner, cheaper energy, and protect our environment for future generations. The proposed cuts would make workplaces more dangerous, mean more pollution in our air and water,…
Testimony & Comments / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Kevin Lee, the State Policy Director for the BlueGreen Alliance, testified before the Joint Meeting of the Minnesota State Senate Committees on Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Legacy Finance.
Letters / Clean Economy Union Jobs
As a coalition of the nation’s largest labor unions and environmental groups, collectively representing millions of members and supporters, we wrote to House leadership to urge the to swiftly bring up several key items for floor consideration.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
After more than a month on the picket lines, members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) at General Motors (GM) returned to work this week having ratified a contract that means better and more equitable wages, secure health care benefits, and that their “temporary” co-workers have a path to permanent jobs.
Letters / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The BlueGreen Alliance, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, United Steelworkers, and Utility Workers Union of America today sent a letter to General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra urging GM to negotiate a fair contract with the United Auto Workers.
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Governor Tim Walz today announced Minnesota would adopt stronger clean car standards.
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
In yet another attack on the longstanding and broadly agreed upon framework of clean car regulation, the Trump administration is shortly expected to move to revoke California’s authority to set vehicle emissions standards more protective than the federal government.