A switch to renewable energy could present more job opportunities, analysts say
By: Scripps National
and last updated 2021-04-07 14:41:36-04
President Joe Biden is looking to shift the U.S. to 100% renewable energy by 2035. But for people who have spent their lives working in the fossil fuel industry, itâs a cause for concern.
But according to Burning Glass Technologies, job opportunities in green energy are already nearing the levels in fossil fuel industries with more room to grow.
âWe think that there will be more jobs created in the green economy than there will be lost in the petra-chemicals economy,â said Matt Sigelman, the CEO of Burning Glass Technologies.
A switch to renewable energy could present more job opportunities, analysts say
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A look at energy jobs under President Biden s infrastructure plan Share Updated: 1:43 PM MDT Apr 6, 2021 By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, AP Business Writer
A look at energy jobs under President Biden s infrastructure plan Share Updated: 1:43 PM MDT Apr 6, 2021
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Show Transcript tonight, President Biden is defending his proposal to revamp the nation s infrastructure against Republican attacks. So it s interesting how their definition of instructors change. They know it. They know we Republicans say Biden s $2 trillion plan goes far beyond what most consider to be traditional infrastructure, like roads and bridges by funding other Democratic priorities like child and elderly care. They re trying to take 70% of this bill and call it infrastructure in a new way than we ve ever talked about infrastructure before. It s time for people to be bolder, um, and more for looking about what infrastructure looks like. Republicans have also criticized h
NEW YORK (AP) â Good-paying jobs â many of them.
Thatâ²s the seductive idea around which President Joe Biden is proposing a vast transformation of the energy sector, with the promise of making it far more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. As Biden portrays it, his plan to invest in infrastructure â and accelerate a shift to renewable energy and electric vehicles, to more efficient homes and upgrades to the power grid â would produce jobs at least as good as the ones that might be lost in the process.
His plans call for 100% renewable energy in the power sector by 2035. To people who have devoted careers to the the fossil fuel industries, those plans may look more like a dire threat. To the president, though, out-of-work oil workers could be shifted to other jobs â plugging uncapped oil wells, for example â and thousands more positions would be created to help string power lines and build electric vehicles and their components.
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Good-paying jobs lots of them. That′s the promise around which President Joe Biden is proposing to transform the U.S. energy sector, with the goal of making it energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and a catalyst for long-term economic growth.
As Biden portrays it, his plan to invest in infrastructure including a shift to renewable energy, electric vehicles and upgrades to the nation s power grid would produce jobs at least as good as the ones that might be lost in the process. His plans call for 100% renewable energy in the power sector by 2035.
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