Sentences with phrase «jobs than fossil fuel»

Renewable energy creates more jobs than fossil fuel extraction — moreover, they are better, safer, more rewarding jobs.

Today, clean energy is responsible for more jobs than the fossil fuel industry (source: Impact Alpha).

Not exact matches

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

JULIANI: Saying that we shouldn't move to a clean energy economy because there are more fossil fuel jobs is like saying we shouldn't have gone from the horse and buggy to the automobile because we had more farriers than we had auto mechanics.

THOMPSON: Another argument against switching to renewable energy is that there are fewer good jobs in clean energy than in fossil fuels.

There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world: Wherever people have brought about more efficient use of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels.

With the climate crisis escalating, no state is better positioned than Washington to demonstrate that the transition to fossil fuel - free electricity powering zero - emission vehicles is technically possible, economically viable, and a key driver for new jobs and economic growth.

A recent report from the Brookings Institution concluded that «the domestic clean economy already employs some 2.7 million workers,» which is more than the fossil fuel industry.9 In addition, it noted that newer «cleantech» segments produced «explosive job gains» that «outperformed the nation during the recession» and that the clean economy is «manufacturing and export intensive.»

In contrast, a recent report found less risk in injury and death in renewable energy production than in fossil fuel jobs.

We need a grassroots - movement to push Congress past the tipping point so that they can keep their jobs whole working for us, rather than be bullied into submission by the fossil fuel industry.

Some people say that solar is better than fossil because it «creates jobs», but if there were no problems with fossil fuels, why not just use them and just mail some random people a check every month?

Clean energy jobs are high paying jobs and more people are already employed by this growing sector than by the fossil fuel industry.

The worker transition support in I - 1631 takes a similar but more generous approach than SB 6203, setting aside $ 50 million to provide full pension, salary, and health benefits to fossil fuel workers who lose their jobs.

This means a duplication of capacity and more than doubling of the costs (because the renewable energy generators are much higher cost than the fossil fuel generators which are essential back up and could do the job on their own).

So, rather than claim that fracking is good because it creates jobs, maybe CEOs in the energy industry should look towards sustainability, and recognize that, by definition, a sustainable energy industry will create jobs for a longer time than an unsustainable one, and the change from dirty to clean energy will yield short - term jobs and long - term profitability without the massive downside of fossil fuels.

It is a recipe for healthy prosperity that will save Marylanders between $ 1.3 billion and $ 7.3 billion a year (2011 dollars) in energy costs in 2050, even after making provisions for (i) assistance for low income households to pay no more than 6 percent of income on energy bills, (ii) proactive investments in communities now dependent on fossil - fuel - related jobs, and (iii) new job creation in underserved areas.

Specifically, a clean - energy investment agenda generates more than three times the number of jobs within the United States as does spending the same amount of money in the fossil fuel sectors.

Rather than do so, we can demand policies that will protect our climate (while also cleaning our air and water, creating jobs, improving our economy, and making our lives more convenient), or we can sit on our butts and let big fossil fuel companies control our governmental bodies in order to maximize their profits (at the expense of society as a whole).

This means that, on average, more jobs are created for each unit of electricity generated from renewable sources than from fossil fuels.

There are more emissions from the total Corn Ethanol production sequence and use as an alternative and additive to fossil fuels than if ordinary fossil originated fuels were just used to do the job.

generate new jobs in the renewable energy sector that would more than offset job losses in the fossil fuel industry, with further jobs being created by energy efficiency activities, and;

The ad heralds jobs in the fossil fuel industry, when in fact more than 500,000 people work in solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy, and geothermal energy.

For example, a dollar invested in clean energy creates three times as many jobs as would be created by the fossil fuel industry, and workers in the clean economy earn better wages than the median American wage.

Twenty - first century clean energy technologies are already being designed, built, marketed, and installed to replace more than a century's worth of entrenched fossil fuel infrastructure, and a recent report by the Department of Commerce indicates that there are nearly 2 million clean energy jobs in our economy today, with more on the way.

America's booming clean energy economy already employs 3.3 million people — more than all U.S. fossil fuel jobs combined.

Renewable energy and energy efficiency investments create far more jobs per dollar spent than fossil fuels, including natural gas (source - PDF).

In reality, investments in renewable energy or energy efficiency have been shown to create far more jobs than equal investments in fossil fuel industries (see Green For All citing UC Berkeley, SolarLove citing U-Mass at Amherst, Citizen's Climate Lobby references).

However, while New York may consume relatively less fossil fuels than other American cities and may do a good job in providing clean water, it does a poor job of reducing, recycling and disposing of its waste.

That way, the person who does a better than average job in limiting their carbon footprint, their fossil fuel use, would get more in this monthly dividend that would be deposited electronically in their bank account, or on their debit card if they don't have a bank account.

It concluded that, all in all, job impacts would be positive, in part because clean energy investments are more labor - intensive than fossil fuel investments.

People who expected all along that global warming was junk science, that they would rather have good jobs and inexpensive energy than pursue some liberal dream of, you know, replacing all fossil fuel with wind and solar power.»