Industrial Transformation

Industrial Transformation

Industrial Transformation

In this moment of interlocking crises, a movement of movements is joining together to fight for an industrial transformation that unites frontline communities fighting for clean air and water, workers fighting for good jobs, and advocacy  groups fighting for racial and economic equity.


We seek a new approach to industrial policy that replaces handouts for corporate polluters with protections for people and the planet. We seek comprehensive solutions that create good-paying, clean manufacturing jobs, cut industrial pollution, and build climate resilience for those hardest hit by the fossil fuel economy. 

For too long, U.S. economic policies have prioritized corporate polluters, not the people and planet. Corporate trade deals and status-quo spending policies have padded the pockets of CEOs while exposing communities of color, immigrants, and working-class families to toxic pollutants, climate disasters, and low wages.

Our cross-sector movement to build a second Industrial Revolution based on 21st century innovation and clean manufacturing processes  is building unity and gaining momentum. It’s time for us to win the future we all need and deserve. Join us!

A gas-fired industrial boiler. iStock

Embracing Clean Heat

A new Sierra Club report and interactive map reveals a major opportunity to slash air pollution and climate emissions in the U.S. — industrial boiler electrification.

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Fumes from a smokestack at a steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio. iStock

Coming Clean on Industrial Emissions

A new Sierra Club report and interactive map reveals — for the first time — the facility-level emissions for four heavy industries: Steel, cement, aluminum, and metallurgical coke.

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January 15, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC –Today, the Department of Energy awarded Century Aluminum up to $500 million to build a state-of-the-art aluminum smelter that will emit 75% less climate pollution

January 10, 2025

Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the details of 140 projects spanning aluminum production, building-material decarbonization, industrial heat, and critical mineral supply chains across more than 30 states…

January 3, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Biden Administration rejected the proposed acquisition of the U.S. Steel Corporation by Nippon Steel Corporation, determining it posed a national security risk to the United States.

December 12, 2024

Washington, DC – Members of CHIPS Communities United (CCU), a coalition of unions, environmental, and community groups, responded to the contract between the CHIPS Program Office and Micron Corp. for facilities in New York and Idaho. The coalition…

December 11, 2024

Today, the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (China Select Committee), held a final meeting to release three new bills – the Black Mass Export Controls Act, the Critical Minerals…