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From our roads and bridges to our water systems, ports, public lands, and electric grid, repairing the nation鈥檚 infrastructure is a significant opportunity to create quality jobs. It's also an opportunity to rebuild these systems to protect the health of workers and communities, to clean up our air and water, and to build stronger, more resilient systems for the future. <br /> <br /> 2021 saw the passage of one of the most influential infrastructure laws to date鈥攖he Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)鈥攁 $1.2 trillion investment in rebuilding and modernizing our nation鈥檚 crumbling infrastructure. The investments and policies included in the law will create good-paying, union jobs across the nation while making some important investments to address climate change. <br /> <br /> It includes billions in reauthorizations and existing programs and $550 billion in new federal infrastructure funding over five years to repair, rebuild, and modernize the nation鈥檚 bridges, transit systems, water infrastructure, and more. While more than half of the bill鈥檚 funding is for transportation infrastructure鈥攊ncluding surface transportation, airports, zero-emissions school buses, electric vehicle charging, ports, public transit, railways, and more鈥攊t also provides significant funding for broadband, the power grid, water infrastructure, resilience, and legacy pollution. </p> <div class="entries"> <article class="teaser-a"> <a href="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/work-issue/buildings/"> <figure><img src="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AdobeStock_12970645-1-720x400.jpeg" alt="" /></figure> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="hx">Buildings</h2> <p>There is significant potential in the buildings sector to address racial and economic inequality, advance environmental justice, and tackle climate change鈥攁ll while creating good, union jobs. </p> <p class="action"><span class="button-c borderless">Learn More</span></p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="teaser-a"> <a href="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/work-issue/building-clean/"> <figure><img src="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/AdobeStock_144864842-copy-720x400.jpg" alt="Young Female construction worker in hard hat drilling concrete wall with a drill and smiling at the camera. Building and renovation. feminism concept" /></figure> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="hx">Building Clean</h2> <p>Building Clean works to increase the use of building products that are more efficient, less toxic, union-made, and manufactured in the United States. </p> <p class="action"><span class="button-c borderless">Learn More</span></p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="teaser-a"> <a href="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/work-issue/buy-clean/"> <figure><img src="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AdobeStock_65325160-720x400.jpeg" alt="Construction Workers Silhouette on Roof of Building." /></figure> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="hx">Buy Clean</h2> <p>Buy Clean policies promote spending taxpayer dollars on infrastructure supplies for materials that are manufactured in a cleaner, more efficient, climate-friendly manner鈥攈elping to close the carbon loophole and rewarding companies that are doing things the right way.</p> <p class="action"><span class="button-c borderless">Learn More</span></p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="teaser-a"> <a href="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/work-issue/ev-charging-and-infrastructure/"> <figure><img src="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_3436-720x400.jpeg" alt="" /></figure> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="hx">EV Charging and Infrastructure</h2> <p>Federal dollars from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) create a historic opportunity not only to support the transition to cleaner vehicles, but also to invest in local communities via new career pathways, job training, and manufacturing investments. </p> <p class="action"><span class="button-c borderless">Learn More</span></p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="teaser-a"> <a href="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/work-issue/natural-infrastructure/"> <figure><img src="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AdobeStock_88026477-copy-720x400.jpg" alt="clean clear water river" /></figure> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="hx">Natural Infrastructure</h2> <p>Healthy ecosystems are a key component in building resilient communities that can adapt to the impacts of climate change. </p> <p class="action"><span class="button-c borderless">Learn More</span></p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="teaser-a"> <a href="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/work-issue/social-infrastructure/"> <figure><img src="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/AdobeStock_231456686-copy-1-720x400.jpg" alt="" /></figure> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="hx">Social Infrastructure</h2> <p>Social infrastructure鈥攖he services required to promote health and economic, cultural, and social well-being鈥攊s critical for communities to be able to respond to and prepare for current and future crises, like climate change. </p> <p class="action"><span class="button-c borderless">Learn More</span></p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="teaser-a"> <a href="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/work-issue/transmission/"> <figure><img src="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/AdobeStock_182646517-copy-720x400.jpeg" alt="" /></figure> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="hx">Transmission</h2> <p>Investing in transmission and electric infrastructure is an excellent opportunity to put people to work in the clean economy. </p> <p class="action"><span class="button-c borderless">Learn More</span></p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="teaser-a"> <a href="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/work-issue/transportation-infrastructure/"> <figure><img src="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/BGA-2010-186-720x400.jpg" alt="Amalgamated Transit Union bus driver." /></figure> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="hx">Transportation Infrastructure</h2> <p>We need to rebuild, modernize, and expand our nation鈥檚 transportation systems in ways that will create high-quality, community-sustaining jobs across numerous industries. </p> <p class="action"><span class="button-c borderless">Learn More</span></p> </div> </a> </article> <article class="teaser-a"> <a href="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/work-issue/water-infrastructure/"> <figure><img src="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image-issue-header-mobile-waterandpipelines.jpg" alt="water treatment worker" /></figure> <div class="wrap"> <h2 class="hx">Water Infrastructure</h2> <p>Water infrastructure investments will boost our economy and create and sustain thousands of jobs while ensuring communities have safe water and water systems resilient to climate change. </p> <p class="action"><span class="button-c borderless">Learn More</span></p> </div> </a> </article> </div> <div class="nums"> <p> <big>$1.2 trillion</big> <strong>2021鈥檚 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a $1.2 trillion investment in rebuilding and modernizing our nation鈥檚 crumbling infrastructure</strong>. 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