Sentences with phrase «clean energy jobs»

Key to that effort is a newly announced plan to train 10,000 employees to fill the thousands of clean energy jobs the state expects to be created here over the next few years.

In just the third quarter of last year, 18,000 new clean energy jobs were created nationwide.

This mandate provides certainty and demonstrated commitment to development of renewable energy, which, in turn, will support the growing clean energy job sector.

They saw that workers could easily transition into clean energy jobs — after all, many already had useful skills for the industry and required only some extra training.

If the nation wants clean energy jobs, it needs to have policies to encourage domestic manufacturing.

The governor's office press release adds clean energy jobs grew 78 percent from 2000 to 2014, compared to total 11 percent for total employment in the state.

These same three states also made the top 10 in total clean energy jobs per thousand people.

It also included clean car and clean energy jobs provisions.

The president was trying to pass an economic recovery bill that included $ 90 billion in green projects — the groups should talk about clean energy jobs instead.

That could mean more than 75,000 new clean energy jobs.

Sen. Brown has a record of fighting for all Ohioans, for clean energy jobs in Ohio, for a cleaner Lake Erie, and for a healthy and secure future for Ohio's kids.

Because Rep. Seitz is a powerful politician who has arguably done more to block the growth of clean energy jobs in Ohio than anyone else in the state.

In partnership with the ILR School's Worker Institute at Cornell University and Climate Jobs NY, this initiative focuses on accelerating energy efficiency and renewable energy growth to make New York a magnet for new energy technologies and creating 40,000 new, good - paying clean energy jobs by 2020.

«Continuing to finance outdated technologies that destroy our environment also destroys our chances for clean energy job creation.

The projects were selected following a solicitation to support the Clean Climate Careers initiative that Cuomo launched last summer with a target of 40,000 new clean energy jobs by 2020.

Do they want Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) to continue fighting for the Great Lakes, for more clean energy jobs in Ohio and for a safe environment for Ohioans and all Americans?

The United States needs to set up similar institutions if it hopes to support clean energy jobs at home.

Using false oil industry talking points, the Big Oil funded American Energy Alliance produced an ad attacking Sen. Lindsey Graham for his willingness to work with Democrats on clean energy jobs legislation.

«This bill will sustain an estimated 2,000 additional clean energy jobs right here in Maryland.

This new renewable energy manufacturer will add 155 new jobs to the existing 26,000 + clean energy jobs located in all regions across North Carolina and will continue bolstering...

This new renewable energy manufacturer will add 155 new jobs to the existing 26,000 + clean energy jobs located in all regions across North Carolina and will continue bolstering the rapidly - growing clean energy manufacturing sector, which already represents 4,300 workers located in our state.

These new jobs are distributed across the entire country — with California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Michigan some of the biggest clean energy job creators so far.

When will the House GOP stop wasting time on fruitless dirty energy support when it could be creating clean energy jobs with the wind power production tax credit?

He ran a piece a couple weeks ago entitled Memo to swing Senators: You are going to vote on a bipartisan, economy - wide climate and clean energy jobs bill this spring.

In fact, the report shows that we can achieve big reductions at low cost, using flexible solutions that drive investment in clean energy to reduce carbon emissions 26 percent by 2020, saving lives and creating clean energy jobs across the country.

Obama has time and again shown little chutzpah on climate, though the window is so wide open, the link to clean energy jobs so clearcut, I'm kind of jonesing for a line like:

First, the oilsands and clean energy job numbers in our report only address «direct employment» — i.e. neither figure includes construction jobs, nor do they include the «induced» jobs in other parts of the economy (like baristas and realtors and staff at the Mac store).

LCV Action Fund President Gene Karpinski praised Bishop's support of clean energy legislation, saying he «stands with the people of New York who need clean energy jobs now, and not with the Big Oil companies and special interests who are blocking progress in Washington.»

And with the globally recognized Sun Edison investing in a long term plan in Ontario, people in the region can expect the number of available clean energy jobs in the region to rise over the next few years.

Dubbed the Amargosa Farm Road Solar Project, it is the eighth project approved by the Secretary since early October and is expected to stimulate Nevada's economy by creating both temporary and permanent clean energy jobs.

Demonstrating that we can win a sizable victory with this coalition (see our blogs from our recent «Storms» of Senate and Representative offices), whether it is through strong comprehensive legislation, defending the Clean Air Act, or helping to generate the investment needed to create millions of good paying domestic clean energy jobs, will change the definition of what is possible in this movement and on this issue.

ANNAPOLIS — As world leaders meet in Paris to marshal global climate action, top Maryland lawmakers came together in Annapolis today to unveil their plan to create the largest dedicated clean energy jobs and business development program in state history.

We demand that governments commit to retrain and rehire workers, make clean energy jobs accessible to everyone, and ensure that communities who have had to bear the brunt of climate change and dirty fossil fuel projects are given economic opportunities and the resources they need to recover from climate impacts.

The money collected from this tax would then be invested in Oregon clean energy jobs and businesses.

The dirty energy proposition would victimize clean energy jobs and development, not to mention legislative innovation and an already struggling climate.

Building an offshore wind power industry in Virginia would help combat climate change and provide our state with thousands of local clean energy jobs.

However, Obama said, that such assertions have been wrong in the past and that action on climate change will create new industrial sectors, produce clean energy jobs, and help America stay ahead in research and development.

«Offshore wind is crucial to meeting New York's ambitious energy and clean energy job goals under Governor Cuomo's leadership,» said John B. Rhodes, President and CEO, NYSERDA.

The move is framed as a way of attacking climate change, reducing U.S. dependency on foreign oil and growing the economy through cleaner energy jobs.

States around the country, including Texas, Ohio, Missouri and North Carolina are poised to cut back on government support for clean energy jobs using model legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council.

The EMSC's recent decision to indefinitely stall laws promoting clean, efficient energy and the jobs they produce, is a power grab by coal utilities paying dropping campaign contributions in exchange to the gutting pollution - free clean energy jobs in Ohio.

Today, businesses like SunPower are moving forward, hiring 200 people for good clean energy jobs in the East Bay,» he said.

We need to put our family, friends and neighbors first and reject the Potomac Pipeline, and instead focus on creating 21st century clean energy jobs.»

For people like Jen's aunt, clean energy jobs mean pension hours, health insurance, and a way to pay the bills.

There are an overwhelming number of reasons that we need to do exactly as Chu suggests and cut our dependence on petroleum, but you already know all of those — to create clean energy jobs domestically, to innovate and compete in cleantech in the global market, to halt the flow of US funds to unstable foreign governments for oil, and so on and so forth.

The map below highlights all the states where coal employment surpasses clean energy jobs (in red), as compared to the states where the opposite is the case (all other states are not considered).