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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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Press Releases & Statements / Offshore Clean Energy

PRESIDENT TRUMP SIDELINES THE CLEAN ENERGY MOVEMENT WITH OFFSHORE WIND CEASE AND DESIST

January 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump yesterday ordered a freeze on new federal wind leasing in the Offshore Continental Shelf and a pause on approval and permitting for existing federal wind leases.  The order charges the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency with completing an assessment…

Press Releases & Statements / Advanced Clean Technology

First-of-its-Kind Clean Smelter Receives DOE Award to Restore Good Jobs and Revitalize the Domestic Aluminum Industry

 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced Century Aluminum is set to receive $500 million from the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). With this award, the company will build the nation’s first clean smelter, attempting to double U.S. primary aluminum production and lower typical smelter emissions by 75%.   Century Aluminum was selected for the OCED…

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Thanks President Biden for Working for Working People, Climate Action

President Joe Biden will deliver a farewell address to the nation this evening as his term as president of the United States comes to a close. Over the course of the past four years, some of the Biden-Harris administration’s most significant achievements are:  The Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in U.S.…

Press Releases & Statements / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities

Refinery Workers, Unions, and Frontline Community Groups Release Policy Roadmap for Contra Costa Refinery Transitions

The Contra Costa Refinery Transition Partnership (CCRTP) released a new report detailing the urgent need for proactive planning to prepare for future refinery closures in Northern California’s Contra Costa County. The report identifies 31 actionable policy recommendations aimed at ensuring a just and equitable transition for workers and frontline communities while addressing economic, environmental, and public…

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT OF SECOND ROUND OF 48C TAX CREDIT RECIPIENTS

WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the second round of project recipients for the Advanced Energy Project Tax Credit (48C). The Inflation Reduction Act provided 48C with $10 billion—including $4 billion for communities that have recently lost jobs in the coal sector. Today’s announcement represents $6 billion in tax credits to clean technology…

Press Releases & Statements / Transmission

TREASURY’S FINAL RULES ON TECHNOLOGY-NEUTRAL CLEAN ELECTRICITY TAX CREDITS HAS MASSIVE POTENTIAL

January 8, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced its Final Rules for the Technology-NeutralClean Electricity Tax Credits late yesterday. These tax credits are for energy deployment projects placed in service in 2025 or later and apply to technologies determined to have net-zero lifecycle emissions.  The rules clarify which technologies will…

Press Releases & Statements / Transmission

MISO Delivers 115 GW of Clean Energy and Thousands of Jobs to the Midwest with its Latest Investment

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) announced 488 new transmission projects that will deliver clean energy to the Midwest. MISO approved over $30 billion in investments through its Long Range Transmission Planning Tranche 2.1. These projects are expected to deliver 5,053 miles of expanded transmission, provide critical interregional connections, and boost local grid reliability.  

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