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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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Letters / Industrial Transformation

BlueGreen Alliance Joins 17 Groups in Calling for Funding to Reduce Industrial Emissions

The BlueGreen Alliance and 17 other groups sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee to strongly recommend that the committee include at least $1 billion in crosscutting funding for the Department of Energy (DOE) to support the decarbonization of America’s industrial base and enhance its long-term global competitiveness.

Press Releases & Statements / Industrial Transformation

The U.S. Department of Energy Awards More Than $6 Billion for Industrial Transformation

Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $6 billion in awards to 33 projects across more than 20 states through its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations’ Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP). This funding—made possible by initiatives championed by President Biden and Democrats in Congress and passed into law—will help strengthen local economies across the nation and create and sustain tens of thousands of good-paying, high-quality jobs—particularly those that support worker organizing and collective bargaining.

Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

The U.S. Department of Energy Awards $500 Million for Potential New Aluminum Facility in Kentucky

Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $500 million to fund a new Century Aluminum facility. The funding is provided by DOE’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations’ Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP). The project is expected to create roughly 1,000 permanent high-wage union jobs and 5,500 construction jobs. Century Aluminum will work with job training…

Press Releases & Statements / Industrial Transformation

The U.S. Department of Energy Awards $500 Million for Middletown Works Steel Plant

Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $500 million to fund and industrial transformation project at Cleveland Cliffs’ Middletown Works facility in Ohio. The funding is provided by DOE’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations’ Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP). The project is expected to create 170 permanent jobs and 1,200 temporary union construction jobs, while…

Testimony & Comments / Industrial Transformation

BlueGreen Alliance Comments on the the Manufacturing Capital Connector

With the right implementation, the Manufacturing Capital Connector (MCC) could be a critical pathway through which the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) can support domestic manufacturing growth and industrial decarbonization, while creating good union jobs, re-shoring clean technology supply chains, and delivering public health and environmental benefits to the workers and communities that need it most. 

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