BlueGreen Alliance Foundation | Research. Education. Solutions.

From protecting workers and communities by finding safer, healthier chemical alternatives, to helping builders identify efficient, healthier, and U.S.-made building products, to tracking manufacturing and jobs in today's innovative vehicle sector, the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation educates the public about the job-creating potential of environmental solutions.

EV Jobs Hub

The EV Jobs Hub will allow policymakers, advocates, and the public to see where new EV manufacturing jobs are being announced, if those jobs will be union, and if the investments are being made in disadvantaged communities in the United States.

Building Clean – How We Build Matters

Building Clean works to increase the use of building products that are more efficient, less toxic, and manufactured in the U.S. Find information on these products and the manufacturers who make them on buildingclean.org.

VISUALIZING THE CLEAN ECONOMY: THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR

Our dynamic data and interactive maps capture real world technology manufacturing and jobs in the transportation and energy sectors today as these industries move to cleaner and more efficient technology. Our Visualizing the Clean Economy research and data also powers our programs, reports, media, and custom analysis.

Visualizing the Clean Economy: The Transit and Rail Sector

ChemHAT

The Chemical Hazard and Alternatives Toolbox (ChemHAT) is a database designed to offer up easy to use information that we can use to protect ourselves, our families and our co-workers against the harm that chemicals can cause.

Navigating the Build America, Buy America Act

Jan 23, 2025

The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BGAF) and Ecomedes today hosted a webinar exploring the Build America, Buy America (BABA) Act. BABA—part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)—strengthens and expands “Buy America” requirements for federally financed infrastructure projects. This new policy has significantly increased the need for U.S. manufacturers to identify their products as BABA compliant. The webinar highlighted and built upon the BlueGreen Alliance’s “Making BABA Work for American Manufacturers” guide, released in December.

First-in-Nation Law Will Require Contractors to Pay Workers Prevailing Wage for Subsidized Low-Income Housing Projects in Minnesota

Jun 04, 2024

A new Minnesota law expands prevailing wage coverage on publicly financed housing projects. Minnesota will be the first state in the nation to mandate prevailing wages on projects funded by Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). Currently paying a prevailing wage is not mandated for LIHTC projects and is usually only triggered if these projects are…

Three Ways Builders Can Boost Local Economies Through Procurement Decisions: Buy U.S.-Made, Locally Made, and Union-Made Building Products

Mar 29, 2024

Builders can amplify the economic impact they have in communities by selecting building products that are made in the U.S., locally sourced, and made by union workers. Products with these specifications support the creation of high-quality jobs, help grow the manufacturing base of the U.S., and more fully realize the socio-economic benefits of investments in…

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