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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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Testimony & Comments / Offshore Clean Energy

The BlueGreen Alliance Comments on Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Oregon

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 / Clean Economy Union Jobs

The BlueGreen Alliance Comments on the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions Phase 2

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

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s Request For Information on the Creation of the Responsible Carbon Management Initiative

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. 

Testimony & Comments / Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s Proposed Pipeline Safety: Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair Rule

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.

Testimony & Comments / Buildings

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to Proposed IRS Regulations on Accessibility of Tax Credits Through Elective Pay to Accelerate Clean Energy Deployment

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.

Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Request for Information on National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (NIETC) Designation

Corridors of National Interest will help strengthen and expand transmission infrastructure necessary to reduce carbon emissions, increase clean energy, and create and maintain high-quality union jobs across the country. Transmission deployment and grid expansion critically need the direction and certainty that these designations will create. 

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Department of Energy’s Interim Final Rule and Program Guidance on the Title 17 Initiative Technologies Loan Guarantee Program

The Title 17 Innovative Technologies Loan Guarantee Program is a critical opportunity to improve the deployment of clean technologies that are vital to meeting our climate goals while providing high-quality jobs in construction, operations and maintenance, and manufacturing.

Testimony & Comments / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

The BlueGreen Alliance Submits Comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on the Proposed Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Year 2027 and Later Light-and Medium-Duty Vehicles

It’s critical that regulators, policymakers, and advocates coordinate standards, policies, investments, and infrastructure projects that engage and benefit all people—from the manufacturing workers who build the vehicles of the future, to the people who drive them, to the communities they drive through. Strong vehicle emissions standards—accompanied by policies to rebuild manufacturing, protect and create good family supporting jobs, and revitalize communities—are critical to achieving these aims.

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