According to Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith, reinvestment in US workers through so-called "green collar jobs" is playing an unlikely but important role in the US presidential campaign. All the major candidates are taking up the call of the new Blue-Green Alliance, a group of environmental organizations and unions that are holding their first conference in Pittsburgh on March 13-14. This initiative hopes to see the creation of millions of green jobs to help the US transition towards an environmentally sustainable economy.

Perhaps the most important aspect of this alliance, is the putting to rest the entire "jobs vs. environment" myth that has been perpetuated to stifle past environmental legislation. Instead, a green future has now become a rallying cry for US labor, starting with the much touted Apollo Alliance that takes up the cause of energy independence, and with the approach of a new administration in 2009, its potential translation into reality.