Kim: Thank you!


Robert l.,
Thank you for being a valued partner of the BlueGreen Alliance! The support of activists and individuals like you is essential to our success in finding common ground solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges in a way that protects and creates family-sustaining jobs and promotes a clean, fair and thriving economy.
Today I’m asking you to show your commitment to our shared goals of a fair and sustainable clean economy by making a meaningful year-end tax-deductible contribution to the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation. All gifts received by December 31st will be matched by our valued partner, National Wildlife Federation, so act now to double your impact!
A lot has changed since our fundraising drive last year. The job-creating Obama-era climate initiatives we fought hard to win are under attack, and the very agencies meant to protect us are turning a blind eye toward proven science. You can be sure your support is needed now more than ever as we continue to navigate through this new landscape.
I’m pleased to report that despite the many setbacks this country has seen this year, the BlueGreen Alliance and the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation have made significant accomplishments, especially at the state level where commitments to climate and environment health goals are still strong:
  • Our California team, along with BlueGreen Alliance partners and allies, built the coalition and put forward the necessary education and support that led to the enactment of a landmark “Buy Clean” policyin September. This first-of-its-kind policy will increase the procurement of U.S.- manufactured, less carbon-intensive goods for roads, bridges, and other public projects, ensuring the use of lower emissions steel, glass, and insulation, and further lowering California’s carbon footprint. Subsequent “Buy Clean” policy discussions are already taking place in both Oregon and Washington.
  • With the support of a labor-environmental coalition—led by the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation—new refinery safety regulations, known as the Process Safety Management (PSM) regulations, were unanimously approved for refineries in California. The regulations break new ground for industrial safety in California and nationwide and reset the bar for "what's possible" in regulating the process industries utilize to protect workers and fence line communities from major incidents. We are now working to replicate these regulations in Oregon and Washington.
  • In Pennsylvania, we worked closely with key partners and allies to build a “blue-green caucus” to identify, develop, and advance a bipartisan commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) policy in Pennsylvania. PACE is a financing mechanism that enables low-cost, long-term funding for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water conservation upgrades to commercial or industrial properties.
  • In the past year, we also made key advancements in our infrastructure work.We released a comprehensive infrastructure proposal in mid-summer that will lay the foundation for a federal infrastructure debate in 2018. “Making the Grade,” outlines investments needed to raise our nation’s infrastructure systems’ “grades” from a D+ to a B, and estimates the number of jobs created with these investments. The report also for the first time outlines key standards and policies to improve the quality of jobs created from these investments in modern, more efficient infrastructure systems.
  • We continued to communicate the positive manufacturing and jobs impacts of clean vehicles and the innovative technology that goes into them—producing an influential report finding over 1,200 factories in 48 states and nearly 300,000 manufacturing jobs making the specific technologies that improve fuel economy and cut emissions in today’s cars and trucks. We also released a powerful, interactive automotive manufacturing map which allows the public and decision makers to explore auto and component manufacturing and employment in every community.
  • Finally, we were one of the leading organizers of the People’s Climate Movement and its April 29 march for climate, jobs, and justice. We were particularly successful in engaging labor and mobilizing labor’s strong attendance at this landmark event.
I’m extremely proud of all the work we’ve been able to do, thanks to supporters like you. But to keep up the momentum and continue making progress where we can, we need your continued support. Any gift, no matter what the size, will help us in our efforts to set this country on a path toward a clean, fair and sustainable future.
Thank you for considering a generous gift to the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation. I wish you all the best during this holiday season and throughout the new year.
Warm regards,
Kim Glas
President, BlueGreen Alliance Foundation


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