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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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Testimony & Comments / Chemical Safety

BlueGreen Alliance Urges EPA to Keep Chemical Disaster Rule

 The BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of the nation’s largest labor unions and environmental organizations, collectively representing millions of members and supporters, urges the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stand up for industrial workers, first responders, and fence-line communities by withdrawing its proposal to rescind crucial amendments to the successful Risk Management Program and immediately implement the original Chemical Disaster Rule. 

Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

Flawed Proposal to Roll Back Fuel Economy and Emissions Standards Will Cost Thousands of Jobs

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today released their plan to roll back the nation’s successful vehicle fuel economy and emissions standards. The current standards have spurred innovation and investment across the nation’s automotive and manufacturing sectors and are helping create and preserve jobs across America.

Blog / Other

Wheeler has a chance to get the EPA back on track, will he take it?

The Environmental Protection Agency is finally free of former Administrator Scott Pruitt, but the damage he did while at the helm of the agency lingers. Under Pruitt’s leadership, the EPA veered wildly off course, betraying its mission to protect public health and the environment every step of the way. With Pruitt gone it’s time to right the ship and get the agency back on track. However, with Andrew Wheeler now leading the agency—and given his professional history—significant change in a positive direction is up in the air. 

Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Energy Efficiency Can Grow Jobs and Boost American Manufacturing

The energy efficiency industry holds immense potential to create quality jobs while boosting the economy and saving consumers money, but it’s often overlooked. At the Environmental and Energy Study Institute’s Renewable and Energy Efficiency Expo on Capitol Hill last week, the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation’s Building Clean Senior Program Associate, Silvia Lucero, took part in a panel discussion, sharing with the crowd the massive opportunity to create quality jobs in the energy efficiency sector.

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