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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 / Clean Economy Union Jobs

BlueGreen Alliance Statement on President Biden’s State of the Union Address

President Joe Biden this evening delivered the annual State of the Union speech. In his speech, President Biden commented on the importance of strong unions and reiterated his support for the fight for workers’ rights and laid out a positive vision for the future of our country.  Following the president’s speech, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

Press Releases & Statements / Building Clean

New Report Finds Decline in Domestic Manufacturing of Energy-Efficient Products

A new analysis released today from Building Clean—an initiative of the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation—has identified a decline in domestic manufacturing of energy efficiency products. In 2007, 84% of energy-efficient products used in the United States were manufactured domestically. The data found that today the U.S.-made percentage has fallen to 79%. The new report, Energy Efficiency Should…

Press Releases & Statements / Industrial Transformation

Carbon Border Fees will Maintain Good Jobs and Reduce Industrial Emissions

Today Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Brian Schatz (D-HI), and Reps. Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Don Beyer (D-VA), and Ami Bera (D-CA) introduced bicameral versions of the Clean Competition Act. The bill would impose a border fee on imports from carbon-intensive industries such as steel, aluminum, cement, and iron. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced a similar bill, the Foreign Pollution Fee Act, on November 3, 2023.

Press Releases & Statements / Advanced Clean Technology

New EPA Methane Standards Will Create Jobs, Protect Workers, Fight Climate Change

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized standards for reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. The announcement comes as the world gathers for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change annual Conference of Parties taking place in the United Arab Emirates. The standard will curb leaks at oil and gas operations that result from accidental leaks, outmoded practices, and obsolete technology utilized by the industry in the gathering, transmission, production, and processing of natural gas.

Press Releases & Statements / Workers' Rights

BlueGreen Alliance Applauds Workers’ Wins as UAW Announces Ratification of Historic Contracts

The United Auto Workers (UAW) today announced the ratification of contracts with the Big Three automakers—General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis. The contracts dramatically increase wages, end the tier systems, lay the groundwork to bring many of the automakers’ electric vehicle (EV) and battery facilities under the UAW’s master contracts, and much more. In response to the successful ratification of the contracts, the BlueGreen Alliance released a statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh.

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