Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy
The BlueGreen Alliance responded to a Notice of Intent to Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Future Floating Wind Energy Development Related to 2023 Leased Areas Offshore California.
Press Releases & Statements / Chemical Safety
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released its final Risk Management Program (RMP) rule. The RMP—which serves as the nation’s primary defense against catastrophic industrial chemical releases, fires, and explosions—covers approximately 12,000 commercial and industrial facilities that use or store large amounts of specific, highly toxic or highly flammable chemicals.
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.
Testimony & Comments / Advanced Clean Technology
The BlueGreen Alliance submitted comments on the 45V Clean Hydrogen Tax Credit program, highlighting how hydrogen can be a critical technology for reducing emissions in hard to abate sectors of the economy—if done right.
Press Releases & Statements / Industrial Transformation
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm today detailed the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) industrial strategy, focused on supporting domestic manufacturing; reducing emissions; creating and sustaining high-quality jobs; ensuring maximum benefits to communities; and promoting fairness, diversity, and inclusion in the clean energy economy.
Testimony & Comments / Industrial Transformation
The 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit provides the largest ever investment in U.S. manufacturing of clean energy technologies. These investments are core to our mission to link climate action with good union jobs and to counter the racial and income inequality fed by manufacturing job losses. 45X is critical to the Inflation Reduction Act’s larger strategy to reduce industrial emissions and pollution, re-shore clean technology supply chains, support good manufacturing jobs, and spur U.S. global competitiveness.
Testimony & Comments / Industrial Transformation
BGA welcomes this extended opportunity to comment on the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for Modernization and Internal Expansion of Existing Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities under the CHIPS Incentives Program.
Testimony & Comments / Water Infrastructure
The BlueGreen Alliance was excited to offer our comments on the proposed Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) and specifically on proactive and equitable lead service line replacement (LSLR). LSLR represents a significant and scalable opportunity to support and create good, union jobs, improve the health of communities, and address environmental injustice by prioritizing those communities that have been disproportionately impacted by toxic legacy substances like lead.
Press Releases & Statements / Fairness for Workers and Communities
The U.S. Senate voted today to confirm Joe Goffman as Assistant Administrator of the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. The BlueGreen Alliance supported Goffman’s nomination in a June 2022 letter to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works leadership.
Testimony & Comments / Racial and Economic Equity and Environmental Justice
The BlueGreen Alliance today responded to the CEQ’s request for information on Phase One of the Environmental Justice (EJ) Scorecard and to provide recommendations on additional metrics to include in future versions of the EJ Scorecard.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The BlueGreen Alliance (BGA) released an updated map of the clean economy supply chain in the United States. The map features 1,156 U.S.-based facilities engaged in the production of the final clean energy products or the manufacturing of critical components for each supply chain.
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.