Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released guidance on the labor standards required for eligibility for the full value of clean energy tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Federal and state agencies are playing a crucial role in uplifting workers and communities as they develop programmatic requirements and guidance to implement the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the CHIPS and Science Act. See our checklist which aims to ensure these investments support and create good-paying union jobs, protect worker rights, prioritize systematically marginalized communities, reduce emissions and pollution, and reinvests in U.S. manufacturing.
Testimony & Comments / Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure
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.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
One year ago today, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, putting the nation on a path to clean up the nation’s air and water and reduce greenhouse gas emissions up to 42% by 2030. Over the last year, the law has already begun to revitalize U.S. manufacturing, grow clean energy, and support and create good union jobs across the country.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Last year, fueled by a desire to buck the status quo that has chipped away at workers’ health, safety, and rights for too long, the BlueGreen Alliance advocated tirelessly for a historic climate and jobs bill. We called for a bill based on the core tenet that the clean economy should work for working people, while protecting the environment and people’s health. It should also create good-paying, accessible jobs for all.
Just one year after being signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act is helping to build a clean economy that does all that. If it is implemented correctly and the jobs created are good, safe, union jobs for all workers.
Testimony & Comments / Buildings
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.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) today released a final rule restoring and strengthening the regulations that implement the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, which set a wage floor—or “prevailing wage”—for publicly-funded construction projects.
Letters / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
We urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to immediately propose Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) that comprehensively address roadblocks in finishing the job. While the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the American Rescue Plan created funding to replace lead service lines, the states hardest-hit by this public health emergency need additional support and clear requirements to ensure appropriate corrosion control treatment to address lead-containing premise pluming and the complete removal of all lead pipes from their communities within 10 years.
Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Reducing emissions from the power sector must be a key part of this strategy. At the same time, any strategy to reduce emissions from this sector must benefit working people and communities across the country.
Press Releases & Statements / Fairness for Workers and Communities
Today the BlueGreen Alliance released a new visualization of hard-hit areas across the United States that stand to benefit from the investments in the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and CHIPS and Science Act. The map highlights communities impacted by the decline of domestic industrial manufacturing, the energy transition, and disproportionate environmental, economic, and health burdens.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Fairness for Workers and Communities
Our newest map highlights the opportunity for strong equity and labor standards to equip hard-hit communities to translate the investments in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act into higher-paying jobs, cleaner air, improved health, and stronger local economies.
Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
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.