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.
Racial and Economic Equity and Environmental Justice
The BlueGreen Alliance joined dozens of organizations in a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget calling for the agency to maximize the benefits of federal dollars for local communities and workers. The organizations represent and serve a variety of constituencies that are working hard to rebuild and recover from the devastating impacts…
Press Releases & Statements / EV Charging and Infrastructure
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) measure to overturn a recently finalized and temporary U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) waiver of Buy America policies for electric vehicle (EV) chargers.
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced more than $1 billion in grant awards to replace 2,700 existing school buses in school districts around the country with zero-emission and clean buses.