Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The Title 17 Innovative Technologies Loan Guarantee Program is a critical opportunity to improve the deployment of clean technologies that are vital to meeting our climate goals while providing high-quality jobs in construction, operations and maintenance, and manufacturing.
Testimony & Comments / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
It’s critical that regulators, policymakers, and advocates coordinate standards, policies, investments, and infrastructure projects that engage and benefit all people—from the manufacturing workers who build the vehicles of the future, to the people who drive them, to the communities they drive through. Strong vehicle emissions standards—accompanied by policies to rebuild manufacturing, protect and create good family supporting jobs, and revitalize communities—are critical to achieving these aims.
Testimony & Comments / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
It’s important that regulators, policymakers, and advocates coordinate standards, policies, investments, and infrastructure projects that engage and benefit all people—from the manufacturing workers who build the vehicles of the future, to the people who drive them, to the communities they drive through. Strong heavy-duty vehicle standards—accompanied by policies to rebuild manufacturing, protect and create good family supporting jobs, and revitalize communities—are critical to achieving these aims.
Testimony & Comments / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
To ensure the safe transportation of CO2, PHMSA’s updated rules must be strong and comprehensive enough to prevent disasters before they happen. Appropriately protective safety standards provide an opportunity for highly-skilled jobs, environmental stewardship, and the public to align for a more sustainable society.
Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Dr. Harris discussed how the Inflation Reduction Act delivers strong investments in clean energy that will support and create high-quality, union jobs, particularly in hard-hit communities, while helping reach our climate goals. She concluded by saying, “Since the Inflation Reduction Act passed, companies have announced over $242 billion in clean energy investments in 41 states where…
Testimony & Comments / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
We appreciate the opportunity to help shape the impact of this program on the workers and communities it is meant to support. We offer the following guiding principles, which shape our responses to questions from the Office of Manufacturing & Energy Supply Chains (MESC).
Testimony & Comments / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
Investing in Large Power Transformer (LPT) manufacturing is an excellent opportunity to put people to work in the clean economy. Most of the jobs associated with transformer manufacturing are already union jobs. New federal investments going towards supporting a build out of the domestic LPT supply chain should continue to reinforce these high-road, family sustaining jobs.
Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The BlueGreen Alliance recently submitted comments to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management regarding the Renewable Energy Modernization Rule.
Testimony & Comments / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
BlueGreen Alliance Vice President of Manufacturing and Industrial Policy Ben Beachy testified at the House Ways and Means Committee entitled, “U.S. Tax Code Subsidizing Green Corporate Handouts and the Chinese Communist Party.”
Testimony & Comments / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
Done right, the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants represent a critical pathway through which EPA can support clean energy deployment, pollution reduction, and climate goals. The block grants can achieve those goals while creating good union jobs, growing domestic manufacturing, and delivering public health and environmental benefits to the workers and communities that need it most.
Testimony & Comments / Infrastructure and Community Resilience
The BlueGreen Alliance’s Minnesota Policy Organizer Abby Hornberger testified in support the inclusion of SF 2156 (Murphy), the Buy Clean Buy Fair Minnesota Act, in the Minnesota State Senate Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate Committee’s omnibus bill.
Testimony & Comments / Clean Economy Union Jobs
In comments to the U.S. Department of the Interior, the BlueGreen Alliance welcome the continued rollout of DOI’s orphaned well remediation program and appreciate the opportunity to provide further comments on how that program can be implemented in ways that create high-quality, family-sustaining jobs, reduce methane emissions and pollution, and leave behind healthier and cleaner communities.