‘Monumental’ Job Growth In New Energy
Clean Energy Is Seeing Monumental Job Growth; Rumor has it, some of the programs behind this growth could be on the budget chopping block.
Jeff Nesbitt, March 15, 2017 (U.S. News & World Report)
"…[Whatever] the Republican Party and the Trump White House thinks about the problem of Earth's changing climate system, the clean energy sector is now creating new jobs faster than almost any other sector in the American economy…This new energy sector in America -- including energy efficiency, natural gas, solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, energy storage, electric vehicles, biofuels and smart grid businesses -- now collectively generates $200 billion in annual revenues (almost the same as consumer electronics) and employs 2.7 million Americans…The U.S. wind and solar industries employ more than 300,000 people…compared to about 150,000 jobs remaining in the domestic coal industry…[A new Energy Economics study shows they] could absorb coal-industry layoffs and provide full-time careers for coal workers during the next 15 years…” click thru to see the study
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