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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 / Offshore Clean Energy

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to NYSERDA’s Request for Input on Development of Offshore Wind Energy in New York

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) efforts to invest in domestic supply chain capacity for offshore wind are critical. We offer comments with respect to the significance of these public expenditures to advance private economic activity, as well as the need to contain costs and maximize return on investment. The long-term benefit of developing this industry in a way that creates high-road, family-supporting jobs in New York, and that creates real pathways into these jobs for historically disadvantaged communities, cannot be overestimated. 

Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy

The BlueGreen Alliance Comments on Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Oregon

Offshore wind energy presents a unique and integral opportunity to accomplish this mission if developed in a way that uplifts the middle class with high-road employment practices, equitable career pathways, maximum job creation, and creation of a domestic supply chain. We appreciate the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)’s concerted effort to achieve the Biden-Harris…

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Domestic Content Bonus for Clean Energy Tax Credits: A User Guide for Project Developers

The Inflation Reduction Act makes a historic investment in clean energy deployment and reducing our climate pollution, while coupling both labor and domestic content standards with clean energy tax credits. For the first time ever, an additional ‘bonus’ tax credit is available for taxpayers utilizing domestically-sourced components and materials. To find out more, read our User Guide to Domestic Content to find out more about the Domestic Content bonus credit. 

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Maryland Passes the POWER Act to Expand Offshore Wind, Good Jobs

 Today the Maryland General Assembly passed the Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources (POWER) Act. This legislation increases Maryland’s offshore wind (OSW) goals to 8.5 gigawatts by 2031 and establishes high-road labor standards across OSW manufacturing, construction, operations, and maintenance through the requirement for Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) and Labor Peace Agreements (LPAs). The POWER Act also initiates a state process to coordinate transmission infrastructure and prioritize in-state manufacturing. 

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Urges Passage of the Maryland POWER Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On March 6, 2023, the Maryland General Assembly Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee heard testimony regarding the Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources (POWER) Act. If passed, the POWER Act would increase Maryland’s offshore wind (OSW) goal to 8.5 gigawatts by 2031 and establish high-road labor standards across OSW manufacturing, installation, and…

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee

BlueGreen Alliance Regional Field Organizer Dan Taylor submitted testimony to the Maryland General Assembly Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee in support of the Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources (POWER) Act. If passed, the POWER Act would increase Maryland’s offshore wind (OSW) goals to 8.5 gigawatts by 2031; establish high-road labor standards across OSW manufacturing,…

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The BlueGreen Alliance Comments on Draft Wind Energy Areas – Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Central Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf

As BOEM advances offshore wind processes from lease area identification to project development, it should utilize its authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to create a high-road, responsibly developed offshore wind industry. 

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The BlueGreen Alliance Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Revolution Wind LLC’s Proposed Revolution Wind Farm Offshore Rhode Island

Offshore wind energy presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to advance this mission if developed in an environmentally responsible manner, with high road labor standards and attention to environmental justice. We thank BOEM for its diligent efforts to advance offshore wind in a manner that lifts up the working class with family-sustaining union jobs, delivers benefits for communities that are hardest hit by climate change and economic inequality, and protects wildlife, critical habitat, and our nation’s natural resources.

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to BOEM’s RFI on Commercial Leasing for Wind Energy Development on the Gulf of Maine Outer Continental Shelf

Offshore wind energy presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to advance this mission if developed in an environmentally responsible manner, with high road labor standards and attention to environmental justice. We thank BOEM for its diligent efforts to advance offshore wind in the U.S. and attention to doing it right, in a way that lifts up the working class with family-sustaining union jobs, delivers benefits for communities that are hardest hit by climate change and economic inequality, and protects wildlife, critical habitat, and our nation’s natural resources. 

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