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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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Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

DOL, DOI, and EPA Work Together to Ensure Use of High-Road Labor Standards

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) pledging to work together to ensure the use of high-road labor standards on DOI and EPA funded projects. Lee Geisse, Ohio Regional Program Manager for the BlueGreen Alliance, joined the event, participating in a fireside chat about the importance of bringing together diverse stakeholders with Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su.

Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

A Guide to Methane Mitigation Part 2: How EPA’s Proposed Methane Rule and the Methane Emissions Reduction Program Work Together

The following blog is part two of a two part series authored by Sean Gordon, BlueGreen Alliance Associate Policy Advisor In part one of this blog series, we explored the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2022 proposed rule for methane pollution from the oil and gas industry and the Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP) established…

Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

A Guide to Methane Mitigation Part One: A Primer on EPA’s Proposed Methane Rule and the Methane Emissions Reduction Program

The following blog is part one of a two-part series authored by BlueGreen Alliance Associate Policy Advisor Sean Gordon.  With the threat of catastrophic climate change looming on the horizon, policymakers in the United States are making a concerted effort to mitigate methane pollution. Methane is a greenhouse gas (GHG) that is nearly 80 times more…

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Comments on Department of the Interior’s Orphaned Wells Remediation Program

In comments to the U.S. Department of the Interior, the BlueGreen Alliance welcome the continued rollout of DOI’s orphaned well remediation program and appreciate the opportunity to provide further comments on how that program can be implemented in ways that create high-quality, family-sustaining jobs, reduce methane emissions and pollution, and leave behind healthier and cleaner communities.

Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to Request for Information on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Use of Demand-Side Support for Clean Energy Technologies

As DOE develops its demand-side strategy, it should view it as part of a holistic industrial strategy. Awards should reflect the value-added role of demand-side support for target sectors and technologies as part of a comprehensive strategy. We urge DOE—and other relevant agencies and offices—to publicly outline such a strategy after incorporating stakeholder input, building on DOE’s Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap.

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Response to the EPA’s proposed rule on methane emissions in the oil and gas sector

Investing in methane mitigation will not just make workers and communities around the facilities safer and healthier, but will also generate and support quality, family-sustaining jobs. With this program, workers and communities will be protected, jobs will be created, and our nation will take another concrete step toward reducing air pollution and the emissions driving climate change.

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the U.S. Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service’s Request for Comments on the Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration

Our Policy Advisor, Ben Davis, responded to questions on Direct Air Capture and on the use of CCUS for industrial facilities, calling for the inclusion of high-road labor standards and strong protections for land, air, and water to be included as the IRS implements the 45Q tax credit.

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