All Posts Tagged With: "green jobs"

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Obama Takes on Anti-Solar Lobby During Nevada Visit

While visiting a solar farm in Boulder City, the President expanded on his “all-of-the-above energy” strategy; one in which solar energy features heavily. He took a tour of Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility, the largest solar panel based facility in the country.

22Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Exploring Jobs in Green Technologies

Wyoming in May had wind projects totaling 1,412 megawatts of power already online, with nearly 7,870 in the queue, according to the American Wind Energy Association. The wind power industry in the state supported between 500 and 1,000 direct and indirect jobs in 2010.

11Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Clean Energy Economy for Five Rocky Mountain States — A New Analysis

Wyoming trails badlly in every major category — in clean energy business, job creation and investment –and the Cowboy State ranks only 49th for public funding from competitively-awarded federal stimulus grants by the Department of Energy

17Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil, Natural Gas Industries Can Boost Jobs

Then there are those “green” jobs that everybody is talking about. America’s oil and gas industry is already creating them. Between 2000 and 2008, the industry invested $58.4 billion in greenhouse gas-mitigating technologies — more than was invested by either the federal government or by all other U.S.-based private industries combined.

8Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Report: West Leads in Clean Energy Boom –
Wyoming’s Clean Energy Jobs Grew Four
Times Faster Than Total Jobs

Clean energy jobs, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, environmentally-friendly production, conservation and pollution mitigation and training and support – grew despite a lack of sustained government support in the past decade, Pew found.

11Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Green Job Growth Faces Major Challenges

A massive economic transition doesn’t happen overnight. Training and hiring millions of people for green jobs demands time, financial investment, and an adjustment of expectations about the very look and feel of a 21st century labor force that is fostering sustainable change.

13Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued