Already, the NRDC affiliate Environmental Entrepreneurs counts about 3.3 million Americans working to make our homes and workplaces more efficient; building all-electric, hybrid and fuel-efficient cars; and helping us get clean, homegrown American power from the wind and sun. That’s nearly three times the jobs fossil fuel production provides.
We must make sure these clean-energy jobs spread to the regions and people that need them most. That includes areas — rural and urban — traditionally dependent on coal, gas and oil production.