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Feb 12, 2023

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

Jul 25, 2019

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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BlueGreen Alliance Statement on Designation of Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument

Apr 12, 2016

The BlueGreen Alliance lauds a new national monument that highlights women’s history.

Blog / Other

Keep the Crude Oil Export Ban to Protect Jobs, Environment

Sep 16, 2015

It’s time for Congress, instead, to get to work to improve safety for U.S. oil industry workers and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This bill is bad for our economy and the environment and Congress should reject it.

Blog / Broadband

It’s Time for a Modern Communications Infrastructure

Jun 16, 2015

A modern communications infrastructure would be a huge benefit to our economy–by creating and sustaining good jobs–and protect our environment by wasting less energy and water and reducing the pollution that’s driving climate change.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Broadband

Communications Infrastructure: Enabling the Clean Energy Economy

May 18, 2015

Repair America is our grassroots campaign to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure to better meet the challenge of climate change, while building a more prosperous, clean economy. Modernizing and extending our broadband network is critical to this effort.

Supply Chain Development

Department of Energy’s $259 Million Loan Will Retool Alcoa Facility, Create 200 Jobs and Improve Fuel Efficiency

Mar 26, 2015

BlueGreen Alliance leaders applauded a Department of Energy announcement of a $259 million loan that will help Alcoa retool what will become one of the largest automotive grade aluminum facilities in North America and add 200 good jobs.

Workers' Rights

Labor, Environmental Leaders Laud President Obama’s Decision to Make Pullman Area a National Monument

Feb 19, 2015

The BlueGreen Alliance lauds President Barack Obama for making the Pullman area of Chicago—the site of the Pullman Palace Car Company’s planned industrial town where workers made sleeper cars for rail passengers—a national monument.

Blog / Buildings

Green Schools – AFT President Thinks Public School Buildings Need Extreme Makeover

Feb 04, 2015

America’s public school buildings need an extreme makeover. To reclaim the promise of public education in America, school buildings and their classrooms must be safe, healthy and welcoming.

Workers' Rights

Investing in America’s Workers is a Down Payment on Long Term Economic Success

Dec 06, 2013

The Bureau of Labor Statistics unveiled the November employment situation, showing the economy added 203,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 7 percent.

Workers' Rights

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on FirstEnergy Lockout at Penelec in Pennsylvania

Nov 25, 2013

In support of workers locked out by FirstEnergy at the Penelec utility in Pennsylvania, the BlueGreen Alliance’s Executive Director David Foster released a statement.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Buildings

Repair America’s Schools

Jul 27, 2013

Public schools have long been a neglected part of our infrastructure system. It’s time to lift them up as of the clean, green, resilient environments we need at the heart of our efforts to rebuild a nation that is better able to address climate change.

Other

BlueGreen Alliance Anuncia su Apoyo a un Reforma Migratoria que Incluya Camino Justo a la Ciudadanía

May 22, 2013

Hoy, el BlueGreen Alliance publicó su Declaración sobre la Reforma Migratoria, la cual apoya una ley bipartita de sentido común y crea un camino justo hacia la ciudadanía.

Letters / Other

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on Spent Nuclear Fuel

May 15, 2013

BlueGreen Alliance statement urging senators to consider the potential benefits of increased public safety, domestic manufacturing and domestic job creation that can come from improving current spent fuel management policy.

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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

All Updates & Resources

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on Designation of Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument

Keep the Crude Oil Export Ban to Protect Jobs, Environment

It’s Time for a Modern Communications Infrastructure

Communications Infrastructure: Enabling the Clean Energy Economy

Department of Energy’s $259 Million Loan Will Retool Alcoa Facility, Create 200 Jobs and Improve Fuel Efficiency

Labor, Environmental Leaders Laud President Obama’s Decision to Make Pullman Area a National Monument

Green Schools – AFT President Thinks Public School Buildings Need Extreme Makeover

Investing in America’s Workers is a Down Payment on Long Term Economic Success

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on FirstEnergy Lockout at Penelec in Pennsylvania

Repair America’s Schools

BlueGreen Alliance Anuncia su Apoyo a un Reforma Migratoria que Incluya Camino Justo a la Ciudadanía

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on Spent Nuclear Fuel