Pew Charitable Trusts reports 770,000 green jobs in ‘07, growing nearly three times as fast as mainstream job sectors

BiofuelsDigest.com
June 12, 2009 Jim Lane

In Washington, the Pew Charitable Trusts released its Clean Energy Economy report, the first state-by-state survey of green-collar jobs. Pew found that green-collar job hiring increased 9 percent between 1998-2007, more than double the rate of conventional jobs, but slowed during the recession.

Pew said that 68,200 businesses filled 770,000 clean energy jobs in 2007, with California leading the way with 124,000 jobs and 56,000 in Texas.

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