Earth Day: Projections for employment in clean jobs continue to rise
Earth Day: Projections for employment in clean jobs continue to rise
Despite a decline during the pandemic, creating clean energy remains a big job in the U.S.
In 2020, the number of clean energy jobs in America fell for the first time since 2015. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic contraction, nearly 307,000 jobs were lost in wind, solar, energy efficiency and other clean energy sectors.
About 3 million Americans worked in clean energy at the end of…