Conveners

Convening the conference is the following wide-ranging group of advocacy organizations, businesses, foundations and academic institutions.  The conference is coordinated by The Blue Green Alliance, a strategic partnership between the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club.

  • AFL-CIO
  • ALCOA, Inc.
  • Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow
  • American Wind Energy Association
  • Apollo Alliance
  • ArcelorMittal Steel
  • BP
  • Blue Green Alliance
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Center for American Progress
  • Center for Environmental Health
  • Center on Wisconsin Strategy
  • Change to Win
  • Chester County Economic Development Council
  • Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future
  • City of Minneapolis
  • Clean Air Council
  • Clean Water Action
  • Commonweal
  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • Conservation Consultants
  • Councilman William Peduto, Pittsburgh City Council 
  • Ella Baker Center
  • Environment America
  • Environment Michigan
  • Environment Ohio
  • Environmental Defense
  • Environmental Health Strategy Center
  • Fossil Free Fuel
  • French American Charitable Trust
  • Fresh Energy
  • Gamesa USA
  • GTECH Strategies 
  • Good Jobs First
  • Green Harvest Technologies
  • Green Building Alliance
  • Green for All
  • Greenpeace
  • Health Care Without Harm
  • Healthy Child Healthy World
  • Healthy Legacy
  • Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America
  • Industrial Relations Center, University of Minnesota
  • International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 95
  • Keystone Research Center


  • League of Conservation Voters
  • Local Development District Association of Pennsylvania
  • Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
  • Michigan League of Conservation Voters
  • Nathan Cummings Foundation
  • National Wildlife Federation
  • New Jersey Work Environment Council
  • Ohio Environmental Council
  • 1 Sky
  • Oregon Environmental Council
  • Oregon Working Families Party
  • PennEnvironment
  • PennFuture
  • Pennsylvania Center for Environmental Education
  • Pennsylvania Land Trust Association
  • Pennsylvania Planning Association
  • Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board
  • Physicians for Social Responsibility – Pittsburgh
  • Piper Jaffray
  • Public Health Institute
  • Rachel Carson Homestead Association
  • Redefining Progress
  • Regional Workforce Collaborative
  • Service Employees International Union
  • Sierra Club
  • St. Paul Port Authority
  • Steel City Biofuels
  • The Heinz Endowments
  • The United Nations Environment Programme
  • Tony Mazzocchi Center for Safety, Health and Environmental Education
  • United Food and Commercial Workers
  • University of California-Berkeley, Center for Labor, Research and Education
  • University of Illinois, Occupational Health Services Institute 
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Union Privilege
  • United Jewish Federation Environmental Committee
  • United Steelworkers
  • Wallace Global Fund
  • Wellstone Action
  • Worker Education and Training Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  • Workforce Alliance
  • Yale Center for Green Chemistry