Blue Green Alliance Teams with Vice President Al Gore to Create Green Jobs and Solve...

Blue Green Alliance Teams with Vice President Al Gore to Create Green Jobs and
Solve the Climate Crisis

Steelworkers and Sierra Club will educate members,
promote global warming solutions and push for investment in green economy

PITTSBURGH, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Blue Green Alliance (BGA),
a strategic partnership of the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, today
joined the Alliance for Climate Protection, the nonprofit organization founded
by Vice President Al Gore, as part of its rapidly expanding coalition of
organizations taking steps to solve the climate crisis.

The BGA and the 850,000-member United Steelworkers will work jointly with the
Alliance for Climate Protection to educate its members about global warming
and activate them behind solutions that can promote economic prosperity. The
member-to-member program will be the first of its kind to build a blue collar
constituency for global warming solutions, highlighting the opportunities for
high-paying domestic jobs in renewable energy, clean technology, and "green"
manufacturing while also explaining the environmental and economic risks
associated with accelerating climate change.

"We are looking towards a future--a very near future--in which good, high
paying American jobs will be created with the onset of a green economy," said
Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers.
"Developing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining new technologies to
fuel our homes and businesses will create a whole new industry that will
translate into millions of new jobs."

According to David Foster, Executive Director of the BGA, the United States is
approaching an historic moment when thinking green will soon become our new
"common sense" -- and the norm in the business world.

"We believe a renewable energy strategy can get our economy moving again and
create a new generation of domestic manufacturing jobs while solving global
warming," Foster said. "During World War II we built more than 50 planes a
day. We should be able to build a renewable energy plant a week to protect
our environment, end our addiction to foreign oil and lead to new industries
that will create thousands of real jobs."

The BGA will join other new Alliance for Climate Protection partners,
including Girl Scouts of the USA, the Audubon Society, and the Earth Day
Network

Earlier this month, the BGA coordinated Good Jobs, Green Jobs, the first
national green jobs conference. Convened by more than 70 organizations, the
event took place in Pittsburgh and drew more than 1,000 leaders from the
environmental, civil rights and labor movements, as well as academic, business
and government institutions.

Also this month, the BGA, Steelworkers and Sierra Club launched the "Green
Jobs for America!" campaign which will focus on defining global warming and
clean renewable energy solutions as key economic opportunities for rebuilding
America's manufacturing infrastructure and creating a broader green economic
renaissance.

"The Blue Green Alliance is honored to partner with Vice President Al Gore and
the Alliance for Climate Protection," said Foster. "We look forward to
bringing the voices of working Americans into this critical national
discussion."

For more information, please visit www.bluegreenalliance.org or
www.wecansolveit.org.

Founded in 2006, the Blue Green Alliance is a strategic partnership of the
United Steelworkers, North America's largest manufacturing union, and the 1.3
million members and supporters of the Sierra Club, the nation's largest
grassroots environmental organization.

SOURCE Blue Green Alliance

CONTACTS: David Foster, +1-612-419-4166, or Jim Young, +1-917-597-9129, both
of the Blue Green Alliance