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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

Feb 12, 2023

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

Jul 25, 2019

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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Letters / Supply Chain Development

Congress: Exclusion of Job-Creating Policy from Tax Bill a Disappointment

Dec 13, 2010

BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster sent a letter to members of the House and Senate to convey disappointment in the exclusion of funding for the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit (48C) in the Tax bill.

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Statement on USITC Decision on Imported Paper from China, Indonesia

Oct 22, 2010

The BlueGreen Alliance welcomed a finding by U.S. International Trade Commission that dumped and subsidized coated paper products from China and Indonesia are threatening to injure U.S. producers.

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BlueGreen Alliance Statement on Obama Administration Investigation into China’s Trade Practices in Green Technologies

Oct 15, 2010

After the USTR announced they would initiate an investigation into China’s acts, policies and practices affecting green technologies, the BlueGreen Alliance said this move underscores the urgency of moving toward a clean energy infrastructure.

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Commerce Determines Indonesian Paper Companies Benefitted from Improper Subsidies

Sep 22, 2010

The BlueGreen Alliance, Sierra Club and NRDC welcomed a Department of Commerce decision to level the playing field, but urged consideration of subsidies resulting from illegal logging in Indonesia.

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BlueGreen Alliance Statement on USW Section 301 Petition

Sep 09, 2010

The BlueGreen Alliance said the United Steelworkers’ Section 301 petition underscores the importance that the United States act quickly to take advantage of the job-creating opportunities of the clean energy economy.

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BlueGreen Alliance Applauds USW Agreement with Chinese Energy Companies

Aug 06, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 6, 2010) The United Steelworkers announced today that they had reached an agreement with two leading Chinese power generation companies to work collaboratively on all aspects of the companies’ U.S. market strategies including manufacturing, assembly, component sourcing, distribution and wind energy project development. Read the announcement from the United Steelworkers. The BlueGreen…

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USW, AWEA Announce Plan to Make U.S. A Leader in Wind Energy

Jun 11, 2010

The American Wind Energy Association and the United Steelworkers released a joint “Framework Agreement” to create a “Partnership for Progress” in accelerating the development and deployment of wind energy production in the United States.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

Labor, Environmental Partners Commemorate Earth Day

Apr 22, 2010

On Earth Day, seven members of the United Steelworkers Union – each one representing a part of the supply chain involved in producing clean energy technologies in the United States – visited with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

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Dept of Commerce Says Indonesian Companies Wrongly Benefiting from Timber Subsidies

Mar 03, 2010

The BlueGreen Alliance, NRDC and the Sierra Club applauded a preliminary determination by the U.S. Department of Commerce that Indonesian paper producers have benefited from government subsidies.

Clean Economy Union Jobs

Report Shows Green Technologies Will Revitalize U.S. Manufacturing

Nov 04, 2009

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown joined the BlueGreen Alliance today to discuss policy recommendations made in a new report aimed at creating hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs through development of a clean energy economy in the United States.

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BlueGreen Alliance Praises Clean Energy Manufacturing Legislation

Jun 17, 2009

The BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director David Foster after Senator Sherrod Brown announced the Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology (IMPACT) Act.

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Cincinnati Green Jobs Town Hall Meeting

Oct 10, 2008

In October 2008, leaders from Cincinnati, Hamilton county and local schools discussed the opportunities for clean sustainable economic development.

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Building Clean: Improving Efficiency, Health, and Equity in Housing and Creating Good Jobs

Solidarity for Climate Action: The Plan We Need to Get American Manufacturing Back on Track

All Updates & Resources

Congress: Exclusion of Job-Creating Policy from Tax Bill a Disappointment

Statement on USITC Decision on Imported Paper from China, Indonesia

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on Obama Administration Investigation into China’s Trade Practices in Green Technologies

Commerce Determines Indonesian Paper Companies Benefitted from Improper Subsidies

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on USW Section 301 Petition

BlueGreen Alliance Applauds USW Agreement with Chinese Energy Companies

USW, AWEA Announce Plan to Make U.S. A Leader in Wind Energy

Labor, Environmental Partners Commemorate Earth Day

Dept of Commerce Says Indonesian Companies Wrongly Benefiting from Timber Subsidies

Report Shows Green Technologies Will Revitalize U.S. Manufacturing

BlueGreen Alliance Praises Clean Energy Manufacturing Legislation

Cincinnati Green Jobs Town Hall Meeting