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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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Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Make Your Voice Heard: Tell the Virginia SCC to Support the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project and Ensure Maximum Benefits to Virginian Workers

The Virginia 2020 Clean Energy Economy Act requires that offshore wind energy projects maximize local economic benefits and prioritize jobs for historically disadvantaged workers and Virginia residents. The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) must certify that the CVOW project will deliver such benefits, and is now accepting written comments. Verbal Comments will be received by phone beginning at 10 a.m. on May 16.

Testimony & Comments / Buildings

The BlueGreen Alliance Responds to U.S. Department of Energy RFI: Designing Equitable, Sustainable, Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the buildings sector accounts for 31% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Public buildings, in particular, have the potential to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These types of buildings, also known as Municipal, University, Schools, Hospitals (MUSH) tend to be the most energy intensive because they are typically large, old and have high electricity demand.

Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs

Ørsted, NABTU Project Labor Agreement Illustrates what Renewables Done Right Look Like

Offshore wind developer Ørsted and North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) signed today a first-of-its-kind national project labor agreement (PLA) for offshore wind projects along the Atlantic Coast. Today’s announcement builds upon a November 2020 memorandum of understanding creating a partnership on future offshore wind projects.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

California BlueGreen Alliance 2022 State Policy Agenda

This Policy Agenda presents BlueGreen Alliance California’s policy goals for 2022. Below, we describe
priority campaigns and practical demands of policymakers in the economic sectors within which we are
working. BGA CA stands ready to work with all government, non-profit, and private sector stakeholders to
advance these intersecting goals, and others, through legislation and regulation in 2022. We hope you will
join us.

Blog / Chemical Safety

Remembering Our Nation’s Fallen Workers

Perhaps one of these tragic and largely preventable deaths has hit close to home for you—with a family member, friend, neighbor, or co-worker who went off to work and never came home. But even if you don’t know someone personally who has died on the job, you can be sure someone has who provided you, your family, and community with the goods and services you needed, wanted, or relied on this past year. You may not know them by name but each one was loved and deserves to be remembered. And their loss serves as a reminder of the day’s full slogan: “Remember the Dead: Fight for the Living.”

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…

Manufacturing and Industrial Policy

U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema Joined Labor Leaders for Event Focused on Infrastructure, Advanced Energy Investments at Manufacturing Facility 

Today, U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema joined the BlueGreen Alliance and labor leaders from around the state for a tour of Digital Building Components’ Fabrication Plant and a roundtable to discuss the economic benefits of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and federal investments in advanced energy and infrastructure.

Reports & Fact Sheets / Industrial Transformation

Build Back Better and Clean Energy Tax Reconciliation

The build out of clean energy and domestic clean technology manufacturing and supply chains is not only good for our climate and economy, but can support our energy independence and security. We have an opportunity to pass legislation that will address climate change, create and support good union jobs, and benefit workers and communities across the country. And we can do this while getting a massive return on investment and ensuring our competitiveness in the global energy economy. 

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