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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 / Buildings

Federal Government Will Reimburse Public or Non-Profit Hospitals up to 50% for Clean Energy Projects

 The Inflation Reduction Act expanded the availability of clean energy tax credits so that tax-exempt entities like public and non-profit hospitals can receive “direct pay” (also known as “elective pay”). In simple terms, direct pay allows such entities to recoup a significant portion of a clean energy project’s cost as a tax-free cash payment from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Reports & Fact Sheets / Buildings

Federal Government to Reimburse Schools for up to 50% for Clean Energy Projects

Building healthier schools is within reach. Up to half the cost of a clean energy project at your school could be refunded to the district under the federal Inflation Reduction Act. Tax-exempt entities such as public schools can receive “direct pay” (also known as “elective pay”). In simple terms, direct pay lets school districts recoup a significant portion of a clean energy project’s cost as a cash payment from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Testimony & Comments / Chemical Safety

The BlueGreen Alliance Calls on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Strengthen the Proposed Risk Management Program Rule to Better Protect Workers and Fenceline Communities

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 / Offshore Clean Energy

The BlueGreen Alliance Comments on Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Oregon

Offshore wind energy presents a unique and integral opportunity to accomplish this mission if developed in a way that uplifts the middle class with high-road employment practices, equitable career pathways, maximum job creation, and creation of a domestic supply chain. We appreciate the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)’s concerted effort to achieve the Biden-Harris…

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The BlueGreen Alliance Comments on the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions Phase 2

By investing to grow clean energy and modernize our grid; repair our failing roads, bridges, and water systems; improve the efficiency and health of our buildings; and transform our transportation systems, we can boost our economy and create millions of good jobs while also reducing pollution, combatting climate change, and making our communities healthier and safer. 

Testimony & Comments / Natural Infrastructure

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s Request For Information on the Creation of the Responsible Carbon Management Initiative

All sectors of society must take action to reduce emissions to limit the disastrous impacts climate change is causing our communities and part of the pathway to limiting warming will include carbon management technologies. We can rapidly reduce emissions and simultaneously develop and deploy responsible carbon management and we must do both. 

Press Releases & Statements / Buy Clean

Gov. Kotek Signs Landmark Bill for Oregon’s Labor and Environmental Future Into Law

Oregon State Governor Tina Kotek signed House Bill 3332 into law at an event today, reinforcing Oregon’s commitment to local industries and cleaner infrastructure by championing domestically-produced iron and steel in public projects. The new law includes a grant initiative to support small businesses as they work to meet Oregon’s strong domestic production benchmarks.

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