Reports & Fact Sheets / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Graphic: What Is 48C?
The 48C grant created jobs, spurred investment in clean energy and helped the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
The 48C grant created jobs, spurred investment in clean energy and helped the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
More than 75,000 people work in America’s wind industry, and another 20,000 people work in 400 facilities making wind turbine components.
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Gamesa — a worldwide leader in wind turbine production — announced that it will furlough 165 workers. A spokesman said the decision was due to adverse market conditions caused by Congress failing to act on renewing the Production Tax Credit.
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
The June unemployment statistics showed the economy gained only 80,000 jobs last month. Renewing the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and the Advanced Energy Project Credit (48c) are needed to overcoming tepid job growth over the past few months.
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Petitions representing more than 40,000 workers in Pennsylvania were delivered today to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office in Washington, D.C.
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
Comments representing over 6,000 workers in Ohio were delivered to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office in Washington, D.C.
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Signatures on petitions and letters of support from local unions and union groups representing more than 184,000 workers in Michigan were delivered to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office in Washington, D.C.
Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today released their decisions in pivotal court cases before the court earlier this year. The following is a statement from BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster:
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
More than 5,000 workers in Virginia showed support for EPA’s proposed Carbon Pollution Standard, which limits the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from future power plants. The comments were delivered to the EPA office in Washington, D.C.
Climate Change & the Clean Economy
The BlueGreen Alliance submitted comments of support, signatures on petitions and letters from local unions and union groups representing over 240,000 union workers in support of the proposed Carbon Pollution Standard.
Letters / Climate Change & the Clean Economy
The BlueGreen Alliance and Economic Policy Institute put forward a joint comment to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency supporting the proposed Carbon Pollution Standard for new power plants.
International Climate Agreements
As world leaders gather in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development beginning this week, the BlueGreen Alliance today released a policy statement urging participants to take action to realize a just, low-carbon economy.