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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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Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Request for Information on National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (NIETC) Designation

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. 

Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to the Department of Energy’s Interim Final Rule and Program Guidance on the Title 17 Initiative Technologies Loan Guarantee Program

The Title 17 Innovative Technologies Loan Guarantee Program is a critical opportunity to improve the deployment of clean technologies that are vital to meeting our climate goals while providing high-quality jobs in construction, operations and maintenance, and manufacturing.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Releases Survey on Federal Clean Energy, Clean Manufacturing Investments

The BlueGreen Alliance, a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations, has released new data highlighting the potential for clean energy, clean manufacturing, and infrastructure investments to resonate with noncollege educated people. According to the survey, an overwhelming 72% of noncollege educated people surveyed approve of significant federal investments in clean energy and clean manufacturing.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

New Study of US EPA Methane Rule Highlights Jobs Potential of Plugging Methane Leaks in Oil and Gas Industry

A new study from the BlueGreen Alliance on economic impacts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) supplemental methane rule released in November 2022 found the adoption of leak reducing technologies and practices at new, modified, and existing oil and gas facilities would create over 136,000 job-years through 2035. A job-year represents an increase in demand for employment sufficient to employ one person for a full year.  

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Plugging the Leaks 2.0: Protect Workers, Reduce Pollution, and Create Quality Jobs by Reducing Methane Waste in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry

Reducing methane emissions in the United States is yet another example of how the nation’s environmental challenges can also be economic opportunities. Methane is a greenhouse gas (GHG) that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) and one of the largest contributors to climate change. Reducing methane emissions can reap economic benefits for…

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Making Clean Energy Tax Credits Deliver for the Public: A User Guide for Governments, Schools, and Nonprofits

The Inflation Reduction Act extended and strengthened tax credits for investment in and production of a range of clean energy technologies—including solar, geothermal, wind, heat pumps, clean hydrogen, electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure—and energy storage technology. Critically, tax-exempt entities, such as public schools, non-profit hospitals, and Tribal, local, and state governments can now claim the tax credits in the form of “direct pay.”

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

DOL, DOI, and EPA Work Together to Ensure Use of High-Road Labor Standards

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) pledging to work together to ensure the use of high-road labor standards on DOI and EPA funded projects. Lee Geisse, Ohio Regional Program Manager for the BlueGreen Alliance, joined the event, participating in a fireside chat about the importance of bringing together diverse stakeholders with Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Domestic Content Bonus for Clean Energy Tax Credits: A User Guide for Project Developers

The Inflation Reduction Act makes a historic investment in clean energy deployment and reducing our climate pollution, while coupling both labor and domestic content standards with clean energy tax credits. For the first time ever, an additional ‘bonus’ tax credit is available for taxpayers utilizing domestically-sourced components and materials. To find out more, read our User Guide to Domestic Content to find out more about the Domestic Content bonus credit. 

Blog / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

Five Reasons to Invest Federal Funding into Retrofits for Schools, Hospitals and other Public Buildings

The passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)—previously known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)—and the Inflation Reduction Act means more federal funding is available to upgrade and retrofit our public-serving institutions. In particular, Municipal, University, School, and Hospital (MUSH) buildings that serve as essential community assets represent a significant opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve health outcomes, build climate resilience, and support and create good, local jobs all while addressing equity and environmental justice. 

Reports & Fact Sheets / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

Roadmap to Navigating Federal Funding for Public Buildings

The 117th Congress passed historic infrastructure legislation that can be utilized to retrofit buildings, including Municipal, University, School, and Hospital (MUSH) buildings. MUSH buildings are particularly important, serving as essential community assets that represent significant opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve health outcomes, build climate resilience, and support and create good, local jobs all while addressing equity and environmental justice. The objective of this roadmap is to identify the federal funding opportunities available through the Inflation Reduction Act, The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and, in the case of schools, the American Rescue Plan, that can be used to upgrade MUSH buildings. 

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