Blue Green Alliance

United We Stand for Solutions

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Wisconsin, Madison, Koch Brothers, Scott Walker, Blue Green Alliance, Unions, Sierra Club, Green News
Michael Brune

When workers began protesting Governor Scott Walker's attempt to bust the public employee unions in Wisconsin, I was proud to say that the Sierra Club stands firmly behind the right to organize and bargain collectively.

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Sierra Club Stands With Workers

Jack Darin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blue Green Alliance, Labor Movement, Wisconsin Union Protests, Workers Rights, Chicago News
Jack Darin

Sierra Club members were proud to join workers' rights rallies in Chicago and Springfield this weekend.

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Keeping Our Air Clean Puts Americans to Work

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Green Jobs, Carbon Emissions, Epa, United Steelworkers, Climate Change, Blue Green Alliance, Labor Unions, Clean Air Act, Fred Upton, Green News
Frances Beinecke

We can have economic growth without stinking up our communities. We can generate jobs without making workers breathe in air that causes cancer, asthma, and cardiac disease.

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Obama Visits Union Apprenticeship Training For Good Jobs Today

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, Utility Workers Union of America, Afl-Cio, Department of Labor, Stewart Acuff, Obama, Blue Green Alliance, Green Energy, Green News
Stewart Acuff

As I write this, President Obama is visiting a union apprenticeship facility to see firsthand union training for green jobs.

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Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keith Bradsher, Cap and Trade, Russ Choma, President Obama, Washington D.C., Renewable Energy, Usw, Blue Green Alliance, Obama, Congress, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, Investigative Reporting Workshop, Iberdrola, China, Stimulus, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Unemployment, Fossil Fuels, Buy American, Windmills, New York Times, Republicans, Windmill Farm, Green Energy, Green News
Leo W. Gerard

Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.

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Now is the Time, Al Gore: Coalfield Uprising and Heroes Need National Defense, Green Jobs

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Gore, Dirty Coal, Made in America Tour, Civil Disobedience, Green Jobs, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Blue Green Alliance, Coal, Van Jones, Epa, Appalachia, Protests, Mountaintop Removal, Repower America, Disney World, Climate Change, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Martha's Vineyard, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Now is the time for all good greens, rednecks, social entrepreneurs, hellraisers, Repower America and Al Gore to come to the aid of their fellow citizens in the Appalachian coalfields.

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When America Works Together, America Works

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Steelworkers, Green Economy, Green Business, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Unions, Waxman-Markey, Nrdc, Green Jobs, Blue Green Alliance, Sierra Club, CWA, Economy, Business News
Jonathan A. Schein

It will probably be months before we know the outcome of the Waxman-Markey bill; in the meantime, it appears that more alliances of strange bedfellows will emerge.

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