Pickup 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 ArticleA 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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“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 ArticleA 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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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