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The Missing Voices at EPA's Hearing on Chemical Safety Rules

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be holding a hearing tomorrow in Washington, D.C. on postponing pending changes to the agency’s Risk Management Program (RMP) designed to protect...

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What Outdoor Education Safety Could Teach U.S. Chemical Facilities

The following piece is written by Isaac Lello-Smith, a student at Cornell University and a BlueGreen Alliance intern. It is part of his testimony at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearing...

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Regulatory Rollbacks Are Not What American Manufacturing And Manufacturing...

This post is by Zoe Lipman, Director, Advance Vehicles and Transportation, BlueGreen Alliance.In line with a February order to review regulation across the government for possible, “repeal,...

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Keeping Standards Strong = Innovation, Job Growth and Healthier Environment

Innovation is happening across the nation. Thousands of American factories and hundreds of thousands of workers that are building cutting edge technology that goes into making our cars and trucks...

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Earth Day: How Union Workers Are Driving a Cleaner Future

By Kim Glas, Executive Director of the BlueGreen AllianceWhen you think of Earth Day, your first thought probably isn’t about how labor union members were pivotal in the success of the first Earth Day....

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Rolling Back Methane Rule will put Workers and Communities in Harm’s Way

There is no benefit to a methane leak. They cost companies money, threaten harm to workers and local communities, and contribute to climate change. And yet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

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A Better Bailout for Workers

By Jason Walsh, executive director of the BlueGreen Alliance.Congress took the first major step last week to address the immediate economic impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic when it passed...

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For the Sake of Working Families, Pass the Full American Jobs Plan Right Now

As a coalition of labor unions and environmental organizations, the BlueGreen Alliance knows very well how difficult it can be finding agreement between parties with differing priorities. We do it...

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DON’T WORKERS DESERVE THE EVERYTHING BAGEL?

By Ben Beachy, Vice President of Manufacturing and Industrial PolicyWithin six months of President Biden’s signature on the Inflation Reduction Act, companies announced a wave of solar, battery, and...

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The Clean Economy Must Be Unionized

The following post is from Jason Walsh, Executive Director of the BlueGreen Alliance. This Labor Day, we sit at a pivotal moment for our nation. As urgency grows to reduce emissions and clean up our...

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Our EV Future Should be Built by Union Workers

General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis (which owns Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep) have raked in massive profits since the auto industry collapse in the late 2000s, when United Auto Workers (UAW) workers...

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“Wait… you want to gut protections that prevent big explosions?”

The following post is from Eric Steen, director of communications for the BlueGreen Alliance. One would think that question had to have come up sometime during the discussion when the honorable U.S....

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