Press Releases & Statements / Support for Impacted Workers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today unveiled a new rule to reduce carbon pollution from existing and future fossil fuel power plants.
BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh spoke at the event unveiling the rule at Howard University and released a statement following the event.
Press Releases & Statements / Fairness for Workers and Communities
The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has released details of a new rule to protect mine workers from silica dust—the most significant contributor to the resurgence of black lung disease.
The Latest / Industrial Transformation
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled updated guidance for the energy community tax bonus included in the Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Press Releases & Statements / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
As community leaders and elected officials work to unlock billions in federal funding to reduce climate pollution, the BlueGreen Alliance has released a new user guide. Job Quality and Community Benefits in the Climate Pollution Reduction Implementation Grants: A User Guide breaks down the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), offering information on how to meet application criteria and how to create high-quality jobs, engage communities, and develop community benefits.
Press Releases & Statements / Fairness for Workers and Communities
The U.S. Senate voted today to confirm Joe Goffman as Assistant Administrator of the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. The BlueGreen Alliance supported Goffman’s nomination in a June 2022 letter to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works leadership.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Support for Impacted Workers
An analysis of the Colorado Office of Just Transition and its impact on communities and implementation of worker support since it opened in 2021. The report reviews the Office’s actions to date, identifies challenges and barriers to success, and provides recommendations for how it can continue to meet its objective of providing tangible support to coal transition workers and communities.
Testimony & Comments / Support for Impacted Workers
The BlueGreen Alliance (BGA) commented in support of the U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) proposed standard on Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica and Improving Respiratory Protection
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.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The Colorado BlueGreen Alliance Coalition secured high road labor protections for a variety of clean energy solutions including landmark legislation to ensure that all large energy-sector projects will include labor standards in line with eligibility requirements outlined in the Inflation Reduction Act’s enhanced tax credits.
Blog / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
As one of the most important metals for modern life, aluminum is all around us. From our bridges and high-rise buildings to our smartphones and kitchen appliances, this highly durable, lightweight, and conductive material is essential. It’s also a key ingredient for achieving our climate, jobs, and national security goals. As a primary component of solar panels, power lines, electric vehicles (EVs), and other clean technologies, aluminum is a building block of our clean energy solutions.1 At the same time, producing aluminum requires a tremendous amount of energy, and globally, the sector is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As the world produces increasing amounts of this material for the clean energy economy, we must simultaneously decrease the emissions from its production in order to achieve global climate targets.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The House GOP seems dead set on cutting off their nose to spite their own face because they’re going to vote on what they’re calling the “Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023.” The name is truly disingenuous. If we actually named bills by what they did, this would be the “Ship U.S. Jobs Overseas Act.”