Reports & Fact Sheets / Offshore Clean Energy
The offshore wind industry in the United States can become a model for building the clean energy economy the right way. Read our fact sheet on how offshore wind is a win for workers and a win for our environment.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Transmission
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.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
President Biden will travel to Westby, Wisconsin today to announce an award from the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program. At the event, the president is expected to highlight a New ERA investment funded by the Inflation Reduction Act that Dairyland Power Cooperative will use to grow solar energy efforts to supply power to utilities in a four-state area. New ERA is designed to help member-owned rural energy cooperatives transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy—creating good jobs for local workers and ensuring workers and communities aren’t left behind in the transition to cleaner, cheaper energy.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
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.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program helps rural Americans transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy. A completed Community Benefits Plan (CBP) is required for any New ERA award allocation. This is a fact sheet that focuses on what BGA a New ERA CBP should include.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, represents a $27 billion federal investment into the clean energy economy. In order to create good clean energy jobs with this financing, recipients and subrecipients of GGRF funds should utilize high-road labor standards in addition to adhering to the prevailing wage and…
Reports & Fact Sheets / Workers' Rights
The strengthened and newly established tax credits for clean energy in the Inflation Reduction Act will not only drive the deployment of clean energy technologies and dramatically reduce pollution, but also provide high-quality jobs in the clean economy. This document will offer answers to some of the most common questions on these rules.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
New analysis commissioned by National Skills Coalition (NSC) and the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), shows that combined historic investments in clean energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure from three new federal laws—the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the CHIPS and Science Act—will create more than 190,000 jobs per year combined in Ohio, Michigan, Colorado, and Oregon over the next decade.
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.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
A new report from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) examines labor supply, demand, and potential shortages from new U.S. clean energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure laws: the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and CHIPS and Science Act.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Supply Chain Development
The clean technology supply chain analysis below can help federal and state policymakers, advocates, developers, journalists, and others trying to break down the complexity of domestic supply chains for clean energy. The map and spreadsheet below show how we can use new investments in the Inflation Reduction Act to bridge supply chain gaps and build a stronger, cleaner, and fairer industrial base for the clean economy in the U.S.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Building Clean
A new analysis released today from the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation has identified a decline in domestic manufacturing of energy efficiency products. In 2007, 84% of energy-efficient products used in the U.S. were manufactured domestically. The data found that today the U.S.-made percentage has fallen to 79%.