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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

Feb 12, 2023

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

Jul 25, 2019

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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Supply Chain Development

BlueGreen Alliance Applauds USW Agreement with Chinese Energy Companies

Aug 06, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 6, 2010) The United Steelworkers announced today that they had reached an agreement with two leading Chinese power generation companies to work collaboratively on all aspects of the companies’ U.S. market strategies including manufacturing, assembly, component sourcing, distribution and wind energy project development. Read the announcement from the United Steelworkers. The BlueGreen…

Supply Chain Development

USW, AWEA Announce Plan to Make U.S. A Leader in Wind Energy

Jun 11, 2010

The American Wind Energy Association and the United Steelworkers released a joint “Framework Agreement” to create a “Partnership for Progress” in accelerating the development and deployment of wind energy production in the United States.

Letters / Workers' Rights

Background on Worker and Union Involvement During Clean Air Act Section 112(r) Inspections

May 24, 2010

The New Jersey Work Environment Council, the state’s labor-environmental partnership, explains the new policy from EPA to allow workers and their representatives to participate in inspections conducted under the Clean Air Act.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

Labor, Environmental Partners Commemorate Earth Day

Apr 22, 2010

On Earth Day, seven members of the United Steelworkers Union – each one representing a part of the supply chain involved in producing clean energy technologies in the United States – visited with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Broadband

Broadband Plan Moves U.S. Further Down Path to a Clean Energy Economy

Mar 16, 2010

The BlueGreen Alliance said the National Broadband Plan is a bold step forward in the effort to establish the United States as a global leader in the clean energy economy.

Broadband

BlueGreen Alliance Releases Networking the Green Economy Report

Mar 04, 2010

U.S. Representative Ed Markey joined the BlueGreen Alliance, Sierra Club and Communications Workers of America to release a report showing the economic and environmental benefits of broadband and related technologies.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Broadband

Networking the Green Economy

Mar 04, 2010

The BlueGreen Alliance, Communications Workers of America, Sierra Club, and Progressive States Network have released a report entitled “Networking the Green Economy: How Broadband and Related Technologies Can Build a Green Economic Future.”

Supply Chain Development

Dept of Commerce Says Indonesian Companies Wrongly Benefiting from Timber Subsidies

Mar 03, 2010

The BlueGreen Alliance, NRDC and the Sierra Club applauded a preliminary determination by the U.S. Department of Commerce that Indonesian paper producers have benefited from government subsidies.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Recycling

GREEN FILES: Recycling for a Sustainable Wisconsin Future

Feb 06, 2010

WRR Environmental Services Co., Inc. in Eau Claire, Wisconsin is a union employer that recycles organic solvents so they can be reused for paint, printing, and industrial applications.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

Secretary Geithner Discusses on Green Manufacturing Jobs in Minneapolis

Jan 28, 2010

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner held a roundtable discussion with members of the Mayors’ Green Manufacturing Initiative, following a tour of a Honeywell in Golden Valley.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Recycling

Mayors’ Green Manufacturing Initiative: Municipal Solid Waste Reclamation Trends: A Local and National Perspective

Oct 23, 2009

“Municipal Solid Waste Reclamation Trends: A Local and National Perspective” examines national and local trends for recycling and composting and what tools and resources are needed to attract and grow jobs in those areas.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Praises Clean Energy Manufacturing Legislation

Jun 17, 2009

The BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director David Foster after Senator Sherrod Brown announced the Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology (IMPACT) Act.

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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

All Updates & Resources

BlueGreen Alliance Applauds USW Agreement with Chinese Energy Companies

USW, AWEA Announce Plan to Make U.S. A Leader in Wind Energy

Background on Worker and Union Involvement During Clean Air Act Section 112(r) Inspections

Labor, Environmental Partners Commemorate Earth Day

Broadband Plan Moves U.S. Further Down Path to a Clean Energy Economy

BlueGreen Alliance Releases Networking the Green Economy Report

Networking the Green Economy

Dept of Commerce Says Indonesian Companies Wrongly Benefiting from Timber Subsidies

GREEN FILES: Recycling for a Sustainable Wisconsin Future

Secretary Geithner Discusses on Green Manufacturing Jobs in Minneapolis

Mayors’ Green Manufacturing Initiative: Municipal Solid Waste Reclamation Trends: A Local and National Perspective

BlueGreen Alliance Praises Clean Energy Manufacturing Legislation