Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The release of the Technical Assessment Report is the first step of the Midterm Evaluation process for 2017-2025 Light-Duty Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Standards. These standards prove that sound policymaking can effectively combat climate change.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
At a time when money was tight, one county in Michigan found a way to provide much needed energy and water efficiency upgrades to their buildings—creating quality local jobs, reducing pollution, and saving taxpayers’ money along the way.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The Good Jobs Green Jobs conference is the nation’s leading forum for strategizing and implementing environmental solutions that create and maintain quality, family-sustaining jobs and ensure the health and safety of our workplaces and communities.
Blog / International Climate Agreements
Throughout our history, the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation has worked not just domestically, but also on the international stage with leaders of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to find solutions for climate change that also create economic opportunity and a just transition for those impacted by this move to a clean, low-carbon economy.
Blog / Advanced Clean Technology
On April 8, labor and environmental advocates hosted Senator Brown and local union members and elected officials for a roundtable discussion about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new methane standards for the oil and gas industry.
Blog / International Climate Agreements
Greetings from Paris. Week two of climate negotiations is now underway!
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
On Thursday the U.S. House and Senate passed a 5-year $305 Billion transportation bill, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (or “FAST’” Act), and on Friday the President signed it.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Green buildings and more efficient building practices and materials have taken the construction sector in the U.S. by storm and a new study shows that a third of the U.S. construction market could be green by 2018.
Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
In California, the BlueGreen Alliance worked with labor unions and environmental organizations to help enact SB 1371, which compels the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) to improve leak identification, repair, and avoidance, as well as better account for the climate change impact of natural gas leaks in the state’s natural gas distribution systems.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
U.S. cities are struggling with aging infrastructure. Ahead of the Paris climate talks, a new report calls on cities worldwide to develop urban development strategies focused on building efficiency, public transit, waste management, & renewable energy.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The EPA recently finalized the Clean Power Plan that will limit carbon pollution from existing power plants. Under it each state must create a blueprint for their state to meet it called a State Implementation Plan (SIP) over the next two to three years.