Even as traditional manufacturing, automotive and mining jobs are unable to return the same opportunities for the American heartland, Environmental Entrepreneurs’ Clean Jobs Midwest 2018 analysis reports that, already, more than 700,000 Midwesterners work in clean energy, with construction and manufacturing making up over 70 percent. That’s four times more than the number of employees working in fossil fuels. The Midwest emphasized clean energy’s importance as the regional industry attained 5 percent growth in a year when total U.S. renewable jobs stayed flat.
