Press Releases & Statements / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized its updated multipollutant vehicle emissions standards for cars and light trucks in model years 2027 through 2032.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The trucking industry lobby has a long history of working to obstruct this kind of regulatory progression. But as we’ll see here, in the third and final part of this series, the typical arguments against truck standards are rife with misinformation, and must be taken with a grain of salt. Here we will correct three of the most commonly repeated claims about the supposed dangers of adopting strong clean truck standards, and set the record straight.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
In Part Two of this series we we summarize the key insights from recent research, and explain how it can inform our vision of what a just transition to EVs should look like. In short, better analytical tools for industrial processes demonstrate that EV manufacturing requires as many, if not more, labor hours than ICE vehicle manufacturing, and that these labor hours are concentrated in the manufacturing of complex EV battery components. This underscores the importance of securing a competitive domestic supply chain for EVs and their key components, powered by high quality, community-sustaining, union jobs.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Our aim in this series is to counteract misinformation and to correct the record on how clean vehicle standards can contribute to the creation and protection of high-quality, union, auto manufacturing jobs. Here, in the first part of the series, we explain how clean vehicle standards can help to support workers, improve public health, and safeguard the environment.
Testimony & Comments / Industrial Transformation
With the right implementation, the Manufacturing Capital Connector (MCC) could be a critical pathway through which the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) can support domestic manufacturing growth and industrial decarbonization, while creating good union jobs, re-shoring clean technology supply chains, and delivering public health and environmental benefits to the workers and communities that need it most.
Press Releases & Statements / EV Charging and Infrastructure
The White House, alongside the U.S. Departments of Transportation (DOT) and Energy (DOE), today released information regarding the nation’s strategy for electrifying freight corridors. Federally funded electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure is required to meet Buy America requirements, supporting domestic manufacturing of charging and other alternative fueling technology.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
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.
Testimony & Comments / Advanced Clean Technology
The BlueGreen Alliance submitted comments on the 45V Clean Hydrogen Tax Credit program, highlighting how hydrogen can be a critical technology for reducing emissions in hard to abate sectors of the economy—if done right.
Press Releases & Statements / Industrial Transformation
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm today detailed the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) industrial strategy, focused on supporting domestic manufacturing; reducing emissions; creating and sustaining high-quality jobs; ensuring maximum benefits to communities; and promoting fairness, diversity, and inclusion in the clean energy economy.
Testimony & Comments / Industrial Transformation
The 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit provides the largest ever investment in U.S. manufacturing of clean energy technologies. These investments are core to our mission to link climate action with good union jobs and to counter the racial and income inequality fed by manufacturing job losses. 45X is critical to the Inflation Reduction Act’s larger strategy to reduce industrial emissions and pollution, re-shore clean technology supply chains, support good manufacturing jobs, and spur U.S. global competitiveness.
Testimony & Comments / Industrial Transformation
BGA welcomes this extended opportunity to comment on the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for Modernization and Internal Expansion of Existing Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities under the CHIPS Incentives Program.