Testimony & Comments / Support for Impacted Workers
The BlueGreen Alliance (BGA) commented in support of the U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) proposed standard on Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica and Improving Respiratory Protection
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
‘EV Jobs Hub’ Charts Unionization, Investments in Disadvantaged Communities, and State and Local Subsidy Data for 188,000 Announced Jobs from $154 Billion in Investment in More Than 300 EV Facilities
Press Releases & Statements / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The Biden administration today announced new and updated funding opportunities aimed at supporting a domestic supply chain for the clean vehicles of the future and ensuring that the jobs building these vehicles provide community-sustaining wages and benefits in workplaces where workers have the free and fair choice to join a union. The package of announcements focuses on three U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) programs that provide grants and loans to automakers building clean vehicles and their components here in the United States, the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program, the Battery Material Processing and Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Grants Programs, and the new Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released guidance on the labor standards required for eligibility for the full value of clean energy tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Federal and state agencies are playing a crucial role in uplifting workers and communities as they develop programmatic requirements and guidance to implement the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the CHIPS and Science Act. See our checklist which aims to ensure these investments support and create good-paying union jobs, protect worker rights, prioritize systematically marginalized communities, reduce emissions and pollution, and reinvests in U.S. manufacturing.
Testimony & Comments / Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure
Investing in methane mitigation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, smog- and soot-forming compounds, and toxic pollution, make workers and communities around the pipelines safer and healthier, and generate and support good-paying jobs. Reducing Methane Leaks is a Win-Win-Win for Workers, Communities, and the Climate.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
One year ago today, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, putting the nation on a path to clean up the nation’s air and water and reduce greenhouse gas emissions up to 42% by 2030. Over the last year, the law has already begun to revitalize U.S. manufacturing, grow clean energy, and support and create good union jobs across the country.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Last year, fueled by a desire to buck the status quo that has chipped away at workers’ health, safety, and rights for too long, the BlueGreen Alliance advocated tirelessly for a historic climate and jobs bill. We called for a bill based on the core tenet that the clean economy should work for working people, while protecting the environment and people’s health. It should also create good-paying, accessible jobs for all.
Just one year after being signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act is helping to build a clean economy that does all that. If it is implemented correctly and the jobs created are good, safe, union jobs for all workers.
Testimony & Comments / Buildings
We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the proposed IRS Regulations on Elective Pay to ensure the maximum uptake of these uncapped credits. These credits will support U.S. climate and equity goals and will create good jobs that are built into the tax credits through incentives for using high-road labor standards.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) today released a final rule restoring and strengthening the regulations that implement the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, which set a wage floor—or “prevailing wage”—for publicly-funded construction projects.
Letters / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
We urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to immediately propose Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) that comprehensively address roadblocks in finishing the job. While the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the American Rescue Plan created funding to replace lead service lines, the states hardest-hit by this public health emergency need additional support and clear requirements to ensure appropriate corrosion control treatment to address lead-containing premise pluming and the complete removal of all lead pipes from their communities within 10 years.