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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 / Offshore Clean Energy

Offshore Wind Continues to Advance with Approval of New England Wind Offshore WindProject

The Biden-Harris administration today announced the approval of the New England Wind offshore wind project. The project will be the nation’s eighth commercial scale offshore wind project. With this announcement the U.S. Department of the Interior has approved more than 10 gigawatts of clean energy from offshore wind projects, moving the nation toward the administration’s goal of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030.

Press Releases & Statements / Buy Clean

Buy Clean, Buy Fair Act Signed by Gov. Inslee Will Spur Unprecedented Transparency, Reduce Pollution, and Increase Responsible Corporate Competition for Washington’s Building Materials

On Thursday, March 28, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed the Buy Clean, Buy Fair Act into law. The law will put in place environmental and labor reporting for public building construction and renovation materials. The’s bill signing builds on previous legislation that created a tracking system intended to ensure public dollars are spent wisely and…

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