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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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Press Releases & Statements / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

With New Purchasing Guidance, Biden Administration Reaffirms Commitment to American Manufacturing 

The Biden administration today released new guidance on the application of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Build America Buy America (BABA) policy. BABA expands, harmonizes, and modernizes Buy America domestic content preferences to more infrastructure programs and projects. In response to the release of the new guidance, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive…

Press Releases & Statements / Supply Chain Development

Responsible Mining Important in Building Clean Energy Supply Chain

The Biden administration today announced a number of new investments in the domestic production of critical minerals and materials necessary to build the nation’s clean energy supply chain. The funding includes efforts to access important elements such as lithium and cobalt, which are used in batteries, electric vehicles, wind turbines, and solar panels. A June 2021 report from the administration found an over-reliance on foreign sources for these and other materials.

Blog / Buy Clean

Buy Clean on the Federal Stage – From Concept to Reality

On December 8, 2021, President Biden released Executive Order 14057 (EO), “Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability,” and the accompanying Federal Sustainability Plan, officially launching the first-ever national Buy Clean program. In his EO, President Biden outlined pathways for the federal government to use its scale and procurement power to help achieve net-zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050. Buy Clean policy is included in this strategy for the first time ever in federal procurement. 

Supply Chain Development

Building Clean Teams up With HPN Select to Help Affordable Housing Owners Find Local Building Products

Building Clean and HPN Select, a Housing Partnership Network social enterprise, announced a partnership to help affordable housing owners find locally manufactured building products. With Building Clean’s assistance, HPN Select will add the manufacturing location—city and state—to thousands of building products in the Select EcoGuide, a database highlighting the health and sustainability of materials used by nonprofit multifamily housing developers.

Infrastructure and Community Resilience

Bluegreen Alliance Statement on U.S. House Introduction of the Buy America 2.0 Act

U.S. Representatives Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13), Joseph Crowley (NY-14), Linda Sánchez (CA-38), and ten fellow co-chairs of the Democratic Caucus Jobs for America Task Force have introduced H.R. 5137, the Buy America 2.0 Act. This bill would support American manufacturers by requiring that all federally funded infrastructure projects use materials made here in America. The BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Kim Glas:

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