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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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The Latest / For America, By America

BlueGreen Alliance Launches Video Ad Calling for a Strong Recovery Plan To Create Good-Paying Manufacturing Jobs, Fill Gaps Left By Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill 

Today, the BlueGreen Alliance—an organization that unites labor unions and environmental organizations to solve today’s environmental challenges in ways that create and maintain quality jobs and build a clean, thriving, and equitable economy—released a new video advertisement uplifting the voices of workers from across the country.

Building Clean

BlueGreen Alliance Making Clean Deliver Report Provides Policymakers a Roadmap to Improving Job Quality in the Clean Economy

The BlueGreen Alliance released Making Clean Deliver: Improving Clean Energy Job Quality and Growing the Clean Energy Manufacturing Supply Chain in the United States today, which outlines the necessity to ensure a strong domestic supply chain of materials and technologies that will power the transition to a clean economy, as well as create good, union jobs for the workers who will build the clean economy.

Testimony & Comments / Chemical Safety

BlueGreen Alliance Comments on Proposed Rule: Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Rule Under the Clean Air Act

Too many Americans have had to evacuate, shelter in place, or race to pick up their children from school as an industrial fire burns or a chemical release heads their way. The BlueGreen Alliance requests that the Environmental Protection Agency take action to protect industrial workers, fenceline communities, first responders, and our nation’s infrastructure by strengthening the Chemical Disaster Rule with a people first approach.

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