The Pew Charitable Trusts found about 68,200 companies with 770,000 jobs in the clean energy sector in 2007 – roughly half a percent of today’s US workforce. The study calls it “a strong start for a new economy still very much in its infancy”. By comparison, fossil fuels industries, including coal, utilities, oil and gas, had about 1.27 million workers in 2007.
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