Fast Track is wrong for workers, the economy and the environment
One of a few international trade agreements considered by Congress over the past few weeks—the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—would include twelve countries, about 40 percent of the world economy and...
View ArticleReinvest in America’s aging, overburdened transportation infrastructure
The following blog is by Zoe Lipman, Senior Policy Advisor for the BlueGreen Alliance.The opinion piece, “Let our Cities Move,” in Wednesday’s New York Times by Mayors Bill DeBlasio of New York City...
View Article"Environmental Goods." Really?
By Lee Anderson, Director of Legislation and Policy for the BlueGreen Alliance.For the last year and a half, while much of the world has been focused on two of the largest international trade...
View ArticleJust Transition: Workers’ Rights are Human Rights
The following post is from Michael G. Williams, Vice President of Strategic Development for the BlueGreen Alliance. Greetings from Paris. Week two of climate negotiations is now underway! All signs...
View ArticleTrust, but Verify: Climate Edition
The following post is from Michael G. Williams, Vice President of Strategic Development for the BlueGreen Alliance. Following up on yesterday’s post on just transition, today I’d like to go over...
View ArticleFinance: Doing the Right Thing
The following post is by Michael G. Williams, Vice President of Strategic Development for the BlueGreen Alliance.Countries that have developed and that have brought their people out of poverty (most of...
View ArticleAdvocates to Senator Brown: Reduce Methane Leaks to Create Jobs, Protect...
The following blog is from Rob McCulloch Director, Infrastructure Programs at the BlueGreen Alliance and Melanie Houston, Director of Oil and Gas Policy for the Ohio Environmental Council. On April 8,...
View ArticleSpin is Not Science
The following blog is from Charlotte Brody, the BlueGreen Alliance’s Vice President of Health Initiatives.When does a cancer-causing chemical not cause cancer? When the chemical company says it...
View ArticlePickup Trucks, Consumer Choice, Jobs, and the Power of Sound Climate Policy
The following blog is from Zoe Lipman, the BlueGreen Alliance’s Senior Policy Advisor. Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway...
View ArticleWILL HE OR WON’T HE? DONALD TRUMP AND THE PARIS AGREEMENT
The following blog is from Kim Glas, Executive Director of the BlueGreen AllianceOn the heels of the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco, President-Elect Donald Trump told the...
View Article“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....
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleRegulatory 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,...
View ArticleKeeping 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...
View ArticleEarth 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....
View ArticleRolling 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...
View ArticleFinance: Doing the Right Thing
The following post is by Michael G. Williams, Vice President of Strategic Development for the BlueGreen Alliance.Countries that have developed and that have brought their people out of poverty (most of...
View ArticleAdvocates to Senator Brown: Reduce Methane Leaks to Create Jobs, Protect...
The following blog is from Rob McCulloch Director, Infrastructure Programs at the BlueGreen Alliance and Melanie Houston, Director of Oil and Gas Policy for the Ohio Environmental Council. On April 8,...
View ArticleSpin is Not Science
The following blog is from Charlotte Brody, the BlueGreen Alliance’s Vice President of Health Initiatives.When does a cancer-causing chemical not cause cancer? When the chemical company says it...
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