Thursday, July 17, 2008

Coal: Hemorrhaging American Jobs Since the 1980s | SolveClimate.com

Coal: Hemorrhaging American Jobs Since the 1980s | SolveClimate.com: "The US coal industry employs about 80,000 individuals -- and dropping.

Meanwhile, renewable energy, which provides just six percent of US electricity needs, employed 200,000 people directly in ’06, and another 246,000 indirectly. And that's just a sliver of the sector’s potential."

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