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Solar Employs More Workers Than Coal, Oil And Natural Gas Combined
By Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com January 20th, 2017
Posted on popularresistance.org
"U.S. solar employs more workers than any other energy industry, including coal, oil and natural gas combined, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s second annual U.S. Energy and Employment Report.
6.4 million Americans now work in the traditional energy and the energy efficiency sector, which added more than 300,000 net new jobs in 2016, or 14 percent of the nation’s job growth." more