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Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

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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Transmission

MISO Delivers 115 GW of Clean Energy and Thousands of Jobs to the Midwest with its Latest Investment

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) announced 488 new transmission projects that will deliver clean energy to the Midwest. MISO approved over $30 billion in investments through its Long Range Transmission Planning Tranche 2.1. These projects are expected to deliver 5,053 miles of expanded transmission, provide critical interregional connections, and boost local grid reliability.  

Reports & Fact Sheets / Transmission

FACT SHEET: Midwest Energy Transmission Project Set to Deliver Jobs, Clean Energy

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) coordinates, controls, and monitors the sale and use of our electric transmission system across 15 states.2 In July 2022—after the largest and most complex study process to date—MISO approved Tranche 1 of Long-Range Transmission Planning (LRTP). Read our fact sheet to see the thousands of jobs that MISO LRTP-1 can deliver.

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. 

Letters / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

The BlueGreen Alliance Joins Coalition in Sending A Letter to the Congress Requesting Robust 2024 Energy and Water Appropriations Funding for High-Capacity Transmission Deployment and Research

As companies and organizations committed to building America’s clean energy future, we write to request that Fiscal Year 2024 Energy and Water Appropriations provide robust funding for high-capacity transmission deployment and research through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Deployment Office (GDO) and Office of Electricity (OE).

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