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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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Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

Then and Now: US Manufacturing Under The Trump and Biden-Harris Administrations

Taking a critical look at the industrial policies of the current Biden-Harris administration and the former Trump administration, we see a dramatic shift. On several points—including job creation, investment in manufacturing, investment in cleaning up industrial emissions, and domestic momentum in growing industries—we see that the Biden-Harris administration outperformed the Trump administration.

Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

BlueGreen Alliance Celebrates the Second Anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act

Today marks two years since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law—a historic investment in clean energy and manufacturing. The law is working across the nation to create good-paying, union jobs in clean energy and manufacturing for the workers and communities that need them the most, while reducing the emissions driving climate change.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

DOE Conversion Grants Lift Up Manufacturing Workers and Communities

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the first ever award recipients of its Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program. The Inflation Reduction Act-funded program is a first-of-its-kind effort to provide direct grants to recently closed or at-risk facilities and funds the retooling efforts needed to transform production lines that were building internal combustion engine vehicles and parts into production lines building electric vehicles (EVs) and parts.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to Release of EPA’s Heavy-Duty Vehicles Rule

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released its greenhouse gas emissions for heavy-duty vehicles beginning in model year 2027. The updated performance-based standard will create a net carbon dioxide reduction of 1 billion metric tons between 2027 and 2055. Following the announcement, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement.

Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

Clean Cars, Clean Air, Good Jobs Blog Series: Part Three – Setting the Record Straight on Clean Truck Standards

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

Clean Cars, Clean Air, Good Jobs Blog Series: Part Two – Good Auto Manufacturing Jobs Sustain the Vehicles—and Clean Economy—of the Future

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

Clean Cars, Clean Air, Good Jobs Blog Series: Part One – The Importance of Clean Vehicle Standards

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.

Press Releases & Statements / EV Charging and Infrastructure

Biden Administration’s Freight Corridors EV Charging Investments Critical to Getting Cleaner Trucks

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. 

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