California Home to 1 out of 7 U.S. Clean Energy Jobs – REPORT

CA business leaders to deliver report to lawmakers in Sacramento Tuesday Clean energy employs 5X more workers as fossil fuels in Calif. Clean vehicle jobs saw 22% growth in 2018 512,934 Californians worked in clean energy in 2018 San Francisco (August 20, 2019) – More than 512,000 Californians worked in clean energy in 2018, accounting […]

Report: Clean energy sector grows 3.5% to 110,000 jobs in NC

“Just like agriculture, biotech and banking before, clean energy is helping reshape North Carolina’s economy once again – and creating thousands of good-paying jobs along the way,” said Bob Keefe, Executive Director of E2, in announcing the report’s findings on Thursday. “Lawmakers now have the opportunity to keep those jobs growing by implementing the right suite of […]

Clean energy market added 5,000 jobs in 2018, new report shows

We need to challenge the government to think in a way beyond the traditional boxes in how we protect the planet [and] give people sustainable jobs,” said Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez, who attended a news conference Tuesday on the newly released clean energy report from E2, also known as Environmental Entrepreneurs, a national, nonpartisan business group supporting […]

Report: Clean Energy Jobs Employ Almost 52,000 in NJ

Nearly 52,000 people in New Jersey – about the same as are employed by UPS, Walmart and Verizon combined – make their living in the clean energy sector, bumping the state to the No. 9 spot in the nation. That’s according to nonpartisan business group Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), which on Thursday marked one year since the signing […]

Letters: Trump, Louisiana should consider clean energy, too

President Donald Trump, who recently traveled to Louisiana to talk about energy jobs, shouldn’t forget about one of the fastest-growing and most promising energy sectors in America right now: clean energy. Last year, clean-energy jobs grew by nearly 4 percent and now employ nearly 3.3 million Americans. That’s more people than work in real estate, […]

Bob Keefe on Green Jobs

Bob Keefe talked about the future of green jobs and the results of a recent analysis of energy jobs in the U.S.

Three Earth Day lessons for Green New Deal activists

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 […]

Study: Clean Energy Jobs Rise, But Growth May Slow

A new study shows the number of clean energy jobs in Indiana increased 4.7 percent in 2018, however that growth could stall moving forward. An analysis of energy jobs data from Illinois-based Clean Energy Trust and nonpartisan business group Environmental Entrepreneurs, or E2, says the state’s sector added more than 3,800 jobs last year, bringing the […]

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