Reports & Fact Sheets / Broadband
Networking the Green Economy
Updated from 2010, this report shows the economic, environmental and energy benefits of broadband and communications technologies.
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Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Gearing Up: Smart Standards Create Good Jobs Building Cleaner Cars
In 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed joint fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for new cars and light trucks.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Gauging Growth – The Freight Rail Supply Chain and Job-Creation Potential
Gauging Growth shows expanding freight rail presents a significant opportunity to support and create quality U.S. jobs while improving the efficiency of freight movement and ensuring the nation remains competitive in the 21st century global economy.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
National Policy on Transportation
The BlueGreen Alliance’s National Transportation Policy called for building a 21st century transportation infrastructure that will create jobs, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and pollution, and ensure the U.S. is globally competitive.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Green Manufacturing in Dayton: A Policy Roadmap towards Green Job Growth
The BlueGreen Alliance has initiated projects at the local level in Minneapolis, Cincinnati and now Dayton, Ohio, in an attempt to jump-start green jobs in local economies.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Chemical Safety
The Economic Benefits of a Green Chemical Industry in the United States
This report demonstrates the potential for chemicals reform to drive innovation and job creation in the U.S. chemical industry through the development of safer, healthier chemicals.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Policy Statement: Protecting Our Health and Safety, Building a Stronger Economy
The BlueGreen Alliance supports the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, and proposed a series of complementary policies.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Broadband
Rebuilding Green: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Green Economy
The Recovery Act’s green investments committed through the end of 2010 create or save nearly 1 million jobs, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute and the BlueGreen Alliance.
Reports & Fact Sheets / International Climate Agreements
A Global Agreement to Address Climate Change and Create Good Jobs
In advance of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Cancun, the BlueGreen Alliance outlined its priorities for an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
GREEN FILES: ATU Members in Wisconsin Are Working the Green Economy
Members of ATU Local 998 are working in Wisconsin ensuring that people can get to work, home, the doctor’s office, or wherever they need to go
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Pathways and Policies Towards Green Jobs in Cincinnati
The BlueGreen Alliance released a report in Cincinnati that identifies polices and programs necessary to grow and expand green manufacturing jobs in the city of Cincinnati.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Chemical Safety
Worker Health and Safety and the Health of the Environment
The health of the environment and the health and safety of workers are tightly connected. The link between these problems and the solutions of good, safe jobs and a healthy, sustainable environment is a core principle of the BlueGreen Alliance.