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.
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.
Jennifer Granholm, the governor of Michigan, has an op - ed in Politico today outlining her proposal to grow
millions of clean energy jobs in the US.
Peterson: 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.
Cape Wind President Jim Gordon welcomed the news, â $ œToday's vote marks not just a successful conclusion to a seven - year state regulatory review of the Cape Wind project but the beginning of a new
era of clean energy jobs and renewable power from the endless wind resources off our shore.»
Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, said, «Today's hearing is the kickoff of a historic Senate effort to pass legislation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, create
millions of clean energy jobs, and protect our children from pollution.»
Ohio state Rep. Bill Seitz, seen in this 2011 photo, «has arguably done more to block the
growth of clean energy jobs in Ohio than anyone else in the state» according to the Checks and Balances Project.
Gina Raimondo, governor of Rhode Island, said: «From the nation's first offshore wind farm to the thousands
of clean energy jobs we've created over the past few years, I'm proud that Rhode Island is leading the nation in the green economy.
It would ensure that millions
of clean energy jobs are created overseas — not here in the United States.
Failing to do so would effectively shut the door on thousands
of clean energy jobs and increase our dependence on fossil fuels, even as the need to act on climate demands the opposite.
(Most of the rest are in energy efficiency, and more than 10,000
of all clean energy jobs are in rural areas).
Across the country, farmlands are now producing new, clean energy from wind and solar installations that create economic growth beyond agriculture, adding tens of thousands
of clean energy jobs.