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Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

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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Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

Clean Cars, Clean Air, Good Jobs Blog Series: Part Three – Setting the Record Straight on Clean Truck Standards

The trucking industry lobby has a long history of working to obstruct this kind of regulatory progression. But as we’ll see here, in the third and final part of this series, the typical arguments against truck standards are rife with misinformation, and must be taken with a grain of salt. Here we will correct three of the most commonly repeated claims about the supposed dangers of adopting strong clean truck standards, and set the record straight.

Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

Clean Cars, Clean Air, Good Jobs Blog Series: Part Two – Good Auto Manufacturing Jobs Sustain the Vehicles—and Clean Economy—of the Future

In Part Two of this series we we summarize the key insights from recent research, and explain how it can inform our vision of what a just transition to EVs should look like. In short, better analytical tools for industrial processes demonstrate that EV manufacturing requires as many, if not more, labor hours than ICE vehicle manufacturing, and that these labor hours are concentrated in the manufacturing of complex EV battery components. This underscores the importance of securing a competitive domestic supply chain for EVs and their key components, powered by high quality, community-sustaining, union jobs.

Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

Clean Cars, Clean Air, Good Jobs Blog Series: Part One – The Importance of Clean Vehicle Standards

Our aim in this series is to counteract misinformation and to correct the record on how clean vehicle standards can contribute to the creation and protection of high-quality, union, auto manufacturing jobs. Here, in the first part of the series, we explain how clean vehicle standards can help to support workers, improve public health, and safeguard the environment.

Testimony & Comments / Industrial Transformation

BlueGreen Alliance Comments on the the Manufacturing Capital Connector

With the right implementation, the Manufacturing Capital Connector (MCC) could be a critical pathway through which the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) can support domestic manufacturing growth and industrial decarbonization, while creating good union jobs, re-shoring clean technology supply chains, and delivering public health and environmental benefits to the workers and communities that need it most. 

Press Releases & Statements / EV Charging and Infrastructure

Biden Administration’s Freight Corridors EV Charging Investments Critical to Getting Cleaner Trucks

The White House, alongside the U.S. Departments of Transportation (DOT) and Energy (DOE), today released information regarding the nation’s strategy for electrifying freight corridors. Federally funded electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure is required to meet Buy America requirements, supporting domestic manufacturing of charging and other alternative fueling technology. 

Reports & Fact Sheets / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

New Research on Federal Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Climate Investments Shows Immense Job Opportunities and Workforce Needs 

A new report from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) examines labor supply, demand, and potential shortages from new U.S. clean energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure laws: the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and CHIPS and Science Act.

Testimony & Comments / Industrial Transformation

BlueGreen Alliance Response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the section 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit

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.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Supply Chain Development

Map and Analysis: Building a Strong Manufacturing Base for Clean Energy in the US

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.

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