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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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Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance and Environmental Partners Submit Comments Opposing Leeway for Industry Recognized Apprenticeship Programs in Construction Industry

The BlueGreen Alliance alongside its six environmental partners submitted comments to the Department of Labor (DOL) opposing a proposed rulemaking that would leave the door open to Industry Recognized Apprenticeship Programs (IRAPs) in the construction industry. The group urged the DOL to permanently exempt the use of IRAPs from the industry.

Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

New Report Shows U.S. Will Miss Out on Thousands of Future Manufacturing Jobs Under Proposed Fuel Economy Rollback

In a detailed analysis released today of the impact of the administration’s proposal to rollback the nation’s leading fuel economy and vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG) standards, the BlueGreen Alliance found that the U.S. stands to miss out on thousands of future manufacturing jobs in a variety of sectors within the auto industry.

International Climate Agreements

BlueGreen Alliance Supports International Climate Accountability Act

Yesterday, Senate Democrats, led by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Tom Carper (D-Del), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) introduced the International Climate Accountability Act, which would ensure the United States remains a party to the Paris Agreement and works to meet its commitments under the agreement. The bill is a companion to H.R. 9, which passed the House of Representative in early May.

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