Buildings
There is significant potential in the buildings sector to address racial and economic inequality, advance environmental justice, and tackle climate change—all while creating good, union jobs.
Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Decades of neglect have left our nation’s infrastructure in a state of disrepair. From our roads and bridges to our water systems, ports, public lands, and electric grid, repairing the nation’s infrastructure is a significant opportunity to create quality jobs. It's also an opportunity to rebuild these systems to protect the health of workers and communities, to clean up our air and water, and to build stronger, more resilient systems for the future.
2021 saw the passage of one of the most influential infrastructure laws to date—the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)—a $1.2 trillion investment in rebuilding and modernizing our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. The investments and policies included in the law will create good-paying, union jobs across the nation while making some important investments to address climate change.
It includes billions in reauthorizations and existing programs and $550 billion in new federal infrastructure funding over five years to repair, rebuild, and modernize the nation’s bridges, transit systems, water infrastructure, and more. While more than half of the bill’s funding is for transportation infrastructure—including surface transportation, airports, zero-emissions school buses, electric vehicle charging, ports, public transit, railways, and more—it also provides significant funding for broadband, the power grid, water infrastructure, resilience, and legacy pollution.
Building Clean
Building Clean works to increase the use of building products that are more efficient, less toxic, union-made, and manufactured in the United States.
Buy Clean
Buy Clean policies promote spending taxpayer dollars on infrastructure supplies for materials that are manufactured in a cleaner, more efficient, climate-friendly manner—helping to close the carbon loophole and rewarding companies that are doing things the right way.
EV Charging and Infrastructure
Federal dollars from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) create a historic opportunity not only to support the transition to cleaner vehicles, but also to invest in local communities via new career pathways, job training, and manufacturing investments.
Natural Infrastructure
Healthy ecosystems are a key component in building resilient communities that can adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Social Infrastructure
Social infrastructure—the services required to promote health and economic, cultural, and social well-being—is critical for communities to be able to respond to and prepare for current and future crises, like climate change.
Transmission
Investing in transmission and electric infrastructure is an excellent opportunity to put people to work in the clean economy.
Transportation Infrastructure
We need to rebuild, modernize, and expand our nation’s transportation systems in ways that will create high-quality, community-sustaining jobs across numerous industries.
Water Infrastructure
Water infrastructure investments will boost our economy and create and sustain thousands of jobs while ensuring communities have safe water and water systems resilient to climate change.
$1.2 trillion 2021’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a $1.2 trillion investment in rebuilding and modernizing our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. (Source)
