Press Releases & Statements / Workers' Rights
Ahead of Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28, the BlueGreen Alliance has released a report exploring efforts to protect or undermine worker health and safety under the current Biden administration and previous Trump administration.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
In September 2020, The BlueGreen Alliance released Misled: The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Agenda on Working Families and the Environment, an analysis of a range of policy actions made by the Trump administration. Now, four years later, we can compare these policies alongside those of the Biden administration and clearly illustrate the impact of an administration’s prioritization of worker health and safety.
Testimony & Comments / Workers' Rights
The BlueGreen Alliance (BGA) provided comments on the effort of Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) to protect Maryland’s workers from heat stress.
Press Releases & Statements / Chemical Safety
The Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters published new data today that highlights over 829 hazardous chemical incidents, including fires, explosions, and harmful chemical releases that have occurred since the beginning of 2021, with 270 incidents occurring this year alone.
Testimony & Comments / Chemical Safety
The EPA estimates that 177 million people in the United States live close enough to an industrial facility to be harmed by a chemical release, fire, or explosion. That is more than half the U.S. population and what’s more, that risk falls disproportionately on low-income and communities of color.
Testimony & Comments / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
To ensure the safe transportation of CO2, PHMSA’s updated rules must be strong and comprehensive enough to prevent disasters before they happen. Appropriately protective safety standards provide an opportunity for highly-skilled jobs, environmental stewardship, and the public to align for a more sustainable society.
Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Our nation’s drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure is vital to the protection, treatment, and distribution of clean water. However, age, strain from population growth, lack of investment, the pervasiveness of lead pipes, and emerging threats from climate change have increased the burden on the current water infrastructure system and health risks to communities. The nation’s wastewater and drinking water infrastructure received grades of “C-” by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), respectively.
Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Many U.S. communities rely on water infrastructure that is a century old. U.S. water pipes leak 6 billion gallons of clean drinking water daily on average—approximately 14% of treated water—wasting energy and water and disrupting businesses and communities. Additionally, there are an estimated 240,000 water main breaks per year in America—or 700 per day.
Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
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.
Press Releases & Statements / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
The preliminary findings of the BlueGreen Alliance/Clearya project indicate that employers who purchase chemical products and the workers who handle those products do not have the information they need to protect themselves. The analysis, entitled Obstructing the Right to Know: A Bluegreen Alliance/Clearya Analysis Of The Chemical Industry’s Health Hazard Warnings On Safety Data Sheets,…