Reports & Fact Sheets / Building Clean
A new analysis released today from the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation has identified a decline in domestic manufacturing of energy efficiency products. In 2007, 84% of energy-efficient products used in the U.S. were manufactured domestically. The data found that today the U.S.-made percentage has fallen to 79%.
Blog / EV Charging and Infrastructure
Recently, the U.S. Senate passed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) measure sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), which would overturn a recently finalized U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) waiver of Buy America policies for electric vehicle (EV) chargers. To unpack why this CRA is so threatening to U.S. manufacturing, BlueGreen Alliance Senior Policy Advisor Reem Rayef breaks down what Buy America policies do, why they are important, and how waivers can be strategically used to maximize the impact of such policies.
Press Releases & Statements / Water Infrastructure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released its proposed revision to the Lead and Copper Rule. The proposed rule improves critical aspects of the Lead and Copper Rule including:
Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) efforts to invest in domestic supply chain capacity for offshore wind are critical. We offer comments with respect to the significance of these public expenditures to advance private economic activity, as well as the need to contain costs and maximize return on investment. The long-term benefit of developing this industry in a way that creates high-road, family-supporting jobs in New York, and that creates real pathways into these jobs for historically disadvantaged communities, cannot be overestimated.
Press Releases & Statements / Buy Clean
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today released its plan to invest $2 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act on substantially lower embodied carbon in some common construction materials.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Buildings
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
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 / Offshore Clean Energy
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 / Water Infrastructure
The BlueGreen Alliance joined more than 150 undersigned water associations, environmental, low-income, other public interest advocates, and labor unions to urge Congress to provide FY24 funding for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Low Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP).
Reports & Fact Sheets / Buildings
Our Better Buildings Approach is a framework built to optimize the climate, health, equity, and job creation potential that the buildings sector represents.
Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs
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
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.