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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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Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Responds to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Request for Information Relating to the Implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act

As the BABA provisions in the BIL come into effect and strengthen the Buy America requirements associated with federal investments, the positive market and employment effects of United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs will be further magnified by supporting U.S. manufacturing jobs. 

Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program: Recommendations for State EV Infrastructure Deployment Plans

Establishing a safe and reliable nationwide network of EV chargers will require mass mobilization of, and investment in, the workers who will build, install, and maintain the EV chargers. With federal funds allocated from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program, states have a unique opportunity to fund new green technology in communities but also ensure a skilled and localized workforce for the safe and effective construction of EV charging infrastructure.

Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

BlueGreen Alliance Comments on Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Central Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf

Maximizing the use of union labor for offshore wind development can ensure the best return on investment for taxpayers and support the administration’s equity goals—union households earn up to 20% more than nonunion households. Workers of color and workers with less formal education see even greater advantages. 

Letters / Endorsements

BlueGreen Alliance Releases Letter in Support of Joseph Goffman’s Nomination to be Assistant Administrator of EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation

The largest office at EPA, OAR leads critical programs to address outdoor and indoor air quality, chemical accident prevention, pollution from vehicles, emissions that contribute to climate change, and radiation protection. In short, this office is vital to EPA’s mission to protect public health and secure a safe environment for workers and communities.

Blog / Industrial Transformation

The Defense Production Act: A Toolbox to Spur Clean Manufacturing

On June 6th, President Biden made waves among policy wonks and activists alike by invoking a Korean War-era law to revitalize manufacturing and take on the climate crisis. Citing authority under the Defense Production Act (DPA), the President gave a legal green light for the federal government to directly purchase five clean energy goods from U.S. manufacturers: solar panel parts, heat pumps, building insulation, green hydrogen inputs, and electric grid components.

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