Trump Is Foolish to Ignore the Flourishing Renewable Energy Sector

[Jimbo101]

the easier way - Trump is Foolish to ____________________________________ (fill in the blank)

Truth-Out.org

President Donald Trump claims to be focused on providing "jobs for all Americans," but -- in another example of his reliance on "alternative facts" -- he has emphasized the fossil-fuel sector as the likeliest site to create those jobs. He is clearly not paying attention to the recently released figures from the US Department of Energy (DOE) that show soaring jobs growth in the US renewable energy sector.

Indeed, as Tomás Carbonell of Environmental Defense Fund wrote in December 2016, the clean energy sector "currently supports hundreds of thousands of manufacturing and construction jobs around the country, and employs far more people than the coal or oil and gas industries."

Solar, already far outpacing fossil fuels and nuclear energy, jumped from 300,192 US jobs in 2015 to 373,807 in 2016. The industry anticipates further such growth in 2017. The wind energy sector, while smaller in actual job numbers at 101,738, nevertheless experienced even faster growth than solar, increasing by 32 percent over 2015 numbers.

According to the International Renewable Energy Agency's 2016 Annual Review of Renewable Energy and Jobs, employment in the US solar industry "grew 12 times as fast as overall job creation in the US economy, and surpassed those in oil and gas extraction (187,200) or coal mining (67,929)."

Nebraska and California have announced they will replace their shuttered or imminently closing nuclear plants with solar power, wind power and energy efficiency.

[nikibatts]

1. He has to bring back coal to appease his coal-belt voters. Sure hope they don't lose Obamacare.

They are going to need it. Bigly!!!

[liberal N proud]

2. He is married to the fossil fuel industry

[manicraven]

3. Awesome news!