Renewable-Energy Push Would Create Heaps of Jobs, Study Says

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Renewable-Energy Push Would Create Heaps of Jobs, Study Says

 

Federal policies favorable to renewable energy could yield up to

240,000 jobs by 2020 nationwide, whereas continued focus on new

fossil-fuel development would yield only some 80,000 jobs, according

to a new study by researchers from the University of California at

Berkeley. The research was released yesterday at a Seattle press

conference that highlighted the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of

enviros, politicians, labor activists, and deep thinkers that is

promoting a national effort on renewable energy commensurate with the

single-minded pursuit of space travel under President Kennedy's

Apollo Project. The Alliance's goal is to have renewables providing

15 percent of the nation's energy by 2015 and 20 percent by 2020.

The Alliance sees hope for its agenda in the current troubles

besetting Bush's fossil-fuel-centric energy plan, which is mired both

in the Senate and, the group says, the 20th century.

 

straight to the source: San Francisco Chronicle, Tom Abate, 14 Apr 2004

<http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=2311>

 

straight to the source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Robert McClure,

14 Apr 2004

<http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=2310>

 

see also, in Grist: A declaration of energy independence -- new

clean-energy coalitions talk up national security and the economy --

in Powers That Be

<http://www.gristmagazine.com/powers/powers063003.asp?source=daily>