A new analysis of energy jobs in the U.S. shows clean energy jobs grew 3.6 percent in 2018, adding about 110,000 new net jobs. Clean energy jobs now outnumber fossil fuel jobs by a nearly 3-to-1 ratio.
The analysis comes from nonpartisan business group E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), which found clean energy jobs increased in nearly every state last year. E2 notes the growth occurred “despite the impact of the Trump administration’s tariffs on solar panels and market uncertainty from the administration’s inaction and planned rollbacks of energy efficiency and clean vehicles policies.”