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

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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Repair Washington: Creating Good Jobs, Strengthening Infrastructure, and Building Climate Solutions

Apr 23, 2014

Rebuilding and upgrading Washington’s infrastructure gives us a great opportunity to create tens of thousands of family wage union jobs, reduce income inequality, make our economy more efficient and productive, reduce climate-‐disrupting pollution, and protect our communities from severe weather effects caused by climate change. In this report, the BlueGreen Alliance identifies needed investment—some of…

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Climate Change: A Workplace Hazard

Feb 07, 2014

Climate change is changing the way we live—and the way we work. With greater temperature and precipitation extremes, more severe storms, and changing weather patterns, we are encountering new challenges—and more serious hazards—in the workplace.

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Repair Minnesota: Creating Good Jobs While Preparing Our Systems for Climate Change

Dec 11, 2013

Repairing Minnesota will create good jobs, make our systems more efficient and less polluting, and safeguard communities from the impact of climate change, like severe weather such as floods and droughts.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The Green Industrial Revolution and the United States

Dec 10, 2013

United States Senator Sherrod Brown (OH) joined leaders from the BlueGreen Alliance, the Institute for America’s Future, and the Center for American Progress to release a new report that offers a bold strategy to lead a green industrial transformation.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

A Proposal for Financing the Clean Energy Transition

Dec 05, 2013

The transition to a clean economy will involve significant economic shifts in how we consume electrical power. This transition can either be a tool that helps to rebuild America, or it can be a disruptive force.

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Repair Michigan: Creating Good Jobs While Preparing Our Infrastructure for Climate Change

Nov 19, 2013

Repairing Michigan will create good jobs, make our systems more efficient and less polluting, and safeguard communities from the impact of climate change, like severe weather such as floods and droughts.

Reports & Fact Sheets / International Climate Agreements

Position Statement: Laying the Foundation for a Global Agreement

Nov 18, 2013

The annual Conference of the Parties (COP) presents an opportunity for the international community to collectively discuss and address the global threat of climate change. Read the full BlueGreen Alliance Position Statement for COP 19.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

One Year Later: Superstorm Sandy and a Call to Action

Oct 28, 2013

In the year since Superstorm Sandy, a continued lack of investment and the crumbling of our basic systems—the ones we rely on to bring us heat, electricity and clean water for example—highlights the need for immediate action.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

A Common Position on the Future of Oil

Sep 27, 2013

In four roundtables held in California, Louisiana, Washington and Texas, 97 workers represented by the United Steelworkers and members of the Sierra Club participated in the drafting of a common position on the future of oil.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Platform on Industrial Energy Efficiency

Aug 14, 2013

A partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations urged a series of measures to make the U.S. manufacturing sector more energy efficient, which will create and maintain jobs while reducing the carbon pollution that causes climate change.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Building a Better Day in Massachusetts

Jul 30, 2013

A new report from the Green Justice Coalition reveals game-changing wins for a healthier economy, a healthier environment, and healthier families in Massachusetts—improvements worth $21 for every dollar invested in home weatherization.

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.

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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

Repair Washington: Creating Good Jobs, Strengthening Infrastructure, and Building Climate Solutions

Climate Change: A Workplace Hazard

Repair Minnesota: Creating Good Jobs While Preparing Our Systems for Climate Change

The Green Industrial Revolution and the United States

A Proposal for Financing the Clean Energy Transition

Repair Michigan: Creating Good Jobs While Preparing Our Infrastructure for Climate Change

Position Statement: Laying the Foundation for a Global Agreement

One Year Later: Superstorm Sandy and a Call to Action

A Common Position on the Future of Oil

Platform on Industrial Energy Efficiency

Building a Better Day in Massachusetts

Repair America’s Schools