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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 / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

New Executive Order Will Promote Good, Union Jobs, Protect Workers and the Environment 

At an event today, President Joe Biden outlined a new executive order (EO) designed to ensure Project Labor Agreements (PLAs)—collective bargaining agreements covering all of the craft workers on a construction project that provide comprehensive guidance and set mutual expectations for large projects—are required for federally funded projects over $35 million dollars. PLAs are considered the gold standard of labor provisions by most building trades unions.  

Testimony & Comments / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

BlueGreen Alliance Response to the US Federal Highway Administration Request for Guidance on Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Deployment

The BlueGreen Alliance submitted comments in response to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration request for guidance on electric vehicle charging infrastructure deployment. The comments urge the Administration to ensure the programs incentivize and support the development of a robust domestic supply chain and skilled workforce for electric vehicle supply equipment; and facilitate community engagement strategies…

Clean Economy Union Jobs

US DOL Good Jobs Initiative Takes Important Steps in Creating, Supporting Good Union Jobs Across the Nation

U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today unveiled a new three part “Good Jobs” initiative. Under the new initiative, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will: increase information sharing for workers about issues like workers’ rights; engage employers on job quality and workforce development; and provide technical assistance and support to other federal agencies working to develop and attach job quality standards to their policies and programs—particularly as applies to the implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Testimony & Comments / Building Clean

Comments on Proposed Rule: Federal Acquisition Regulation: Minimizing the Risk of Climate Change in Federal Acquisitions

The BlueGreen Alliance submitted comments outlining the 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 and launching the first-ever national Buy Clean initiative with the release of E.O. 14057, “Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability.”

Offshore Clean Energy

Department of Interior and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Announce New York Bight Offshore Wind Lease Sale, Largest in Nation’s History

This is a major first step to fulfill the promise of offshore wind in America. The introduction of large-scale offshore wind projects is overdue and will have a significant impact on the future of our energy systems. We applaud and thank the administration for not only promoting necessary clean energy projects, but for also ensuring that these projects lead to good-paying, unionized jobs that will directly support the communities they impact

Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience

Comments on the Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Vineyard Wind South Project Offshore Massachusetts

The BlueGreen Alliance appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments in regard to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (“BOEM”) preparation of an Environmental Assessment (“EA”) under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) for the Morro Bay Wind Energy Area (“WEA”) to help determine whether to move forward with a future commercial wind lease issuance.

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. 

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