Bluegreen Alliance

It's About Greening All Jobs, Not Green Jobs

Carl Pope | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Clean Energy, John Dingell, Detroit Manufacturing, BlueGreen Alliance, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Green News
Carl Pope

Americans are all in the environmental crisis together, they are all in the economic crisis together, and the two crises have a common solution -- making every job a green job.

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Lucia Graves

Green Principles Mostly Missing From Obama's Job Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.09.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's jobs speech on Thursday night was infused with the passion that many who campaigned for him in 2008 had been wa...

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Lucia Graves

Environmental Coalition Backs Sen. Sherrod Brown's New Green Jobs Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 07.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) joined green jobs leaders Thursday to tout a merger of green development groups and planned advocacy for ...

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On Road to Clean Energy Economy, America Is Stuck in Traffic

David Foster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Energy, David Foster, BlueGreen Alliance, Manufacturing Jobs, The Job's Not Done Bus Tour, Jobs, Green Jobs, U.S. Economy, Steelworkers, Labor Day, Green Legislation, Green News
David Foster

Only the American voter can break the partisan gridlock blocking our road and get the U.S. Senate back to the business of creating jobs in this country -- good, clean energy jobs -- now.

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America's Choice: Leave a Legacy of Hell or Bequeath Clean Air

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Atlantic Monthly, Waxman-Markey Act, Hell With the Lid Off, Congressional Budget Office, United Steelworkers, Pollution, Pittsburgh, Wind Turbines, James Parton, Sierra Club, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Solar Cells, BlueGreen Alliance, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Labor unions are pressing for passage of policies like a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) and comprehensive climate-change legislation that would promote transition to a clean-energy economy.

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What's Green, White and Blue? American Jobs

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apollo Alliance, Shenyang Power Group, LTV Steel, Sca, Tianjin Pipe, A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd., Green Jobs, United Auto Workers, Renewable Energy, U.S. Commerce Department, BlueGreen Alliance, Unfair Trade, Wind Turbine, Import Duties, Svenska Cellulosa AB, White Collar, Grupo Mexico, Wilbur Ross, Blue Collar, Rio Tinto, Charlie Rose, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Pbs, Manufacturing, U.S. Renewable Energy Group, United Steelworkers, Manufacturing Jobs, Wind Farm, Energy Independence, Jinxiang Lu, Bridgestone-Firestone, Arcelor-Mittal, Severstal, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Additional wind farms mean more renewable energy freeing the U.S. from reliance on foreign oil. But there's no point in replacing imported foreign oil with imported wind turbines

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