green jobs
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Why does ABC News hate electric cars?
Elon Musk, billionaire founder of Skype, wants to revolutionize the landscape of American cars with his Tesla Motors Model S sedan. He's already got a contract with Toyota, and he's been lauded by every outlet that knows what the hell it's talking about. So why does ABC News want to smear Tesla as the next […]
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Romney attacks green jobs, ignoring the 64,000 created in his state
Mitt Romney’s facts are illusory — not green jobs.Photo: World Affairs Council of PhiladelphiaCross-posted from Climate Progress. Former Massachusetts governor and presidential front-runner Mitt Romney — once a candidate who stood up to coal and supported clean energy — is now calling green jobs fake. In an op-ed in the Orange County Register published Monday, […]
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New GE factory will spit out a solar panel every 10 seconds
China makes a lot of solar panels, but so does America. Or at least, it will, once GE's new thin-film panel factory opens in Colorado.
The factory marks GE's new, large bet on solar, and states across the country competed to have the factory sited within their borders. Colorado had an empty factory that fit the bill and will snatch up a few hundred jobs as a result.
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Red states, green jobs
It's too bad conservative lawmakers want to shut the South's booming clean economy down, since green jobs fight poverty in the region.
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Obama rips GOP defeatism: ‘I’m not going to surrender to other countries’
Republicans are using Solyndra as an excuse to dismiss clean energy manufacturing in the U.S. Obama doesn't give up so easily.
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David Roberts talks green jobs with EnergyNow! [VIDEO]
David Roberts sat down with the folks at EnergyNow! to discuss "green jobs." Here's the video.
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Green jobs by the numbers
Cleantech sectors saw explosive growth in 2003-2010, despite the Great Recession.
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Critical List: Green jobs program flounders; India calls Monsanto out on biopiracy
Oof. Only 10 percent of people the Labor Department trained for green jobs have found work.
Using solar energy to extract oil must be the ultimate example of greenwashing.
In Afghanistan, networking generators together can relieve 7,900 fuel trucks of their duties and keep soldiers from risking their lives to bring oil into the country.
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Getting the facts straight on green jobs
The past few weeks have seen a storm of misinformation on green jobs: What they are, how many there are, how much they contribute to the economy.