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Green Jobs

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Channel: The YEARS Project · 2018 · News & Politics

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According to the U.S. Labor Department, clean energy jobs are among the fast-growing in the country. But these sectors could be growing even faster if Washington supported wind and solar as much as some other countries do. 

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[i] BLS.Gov. Wind Turbine Technicians. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/installation-maintenance-and-repair/mobile/wind-turbine-technicians.htm
[ii] Bloomberg.com. These Are the Fastest Growing Jobs in the U.S.. Oct. 24th. 2017.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-24/health-care-stem-jobs-among-fastest-growing-u-s-occupations
[iii] WRI.org. What Are the Top 10 States for Clean Energy Jobs. Apr 6. 2016. http://www.wri.org/blog/2017/04/what-are-top-10-states-clean-energy-jobs
[iv] NYtimes.com. China Aims to Spend at Least $360 Billion on Renewable Energy by 2020. Jan 5. 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/world/asia/china-renewable-energy-investment.html
[v] Ibid.
[vi] Bloomberg.com. New Energy Outlook 2017. June 2017. https://data.bloomberglp.com/bnef/sites/14/2017/06/BNEF_NEO2017_ExecutiveSummary.pdf?elqTrackId=431b316cc3734996abdb55ddbbca0249&elq=506b37d564364107afcc27d0899ae593&elqaid=7785&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=
[vii] NRDC.org.  The Paris Climate Agreement's $19 Trillion Economic Prize. March 22. 2017. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/brendan-guy/paris-climate-agreements-19-trillion-economic-prize
[viii] Irena.org. Perspectives for the Energy Transition. March 2017. http://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2017/Mar/Perspectives_for_the_Energy_Transition_2017.pdf?la=en&hash=56436956B74DBD22A9C6309ED76E3924A879D0C7

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