Supporters of Climate Control Legislation Focus on Job Creation

Reuters, by Richard Cowan, January 28, 2010
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Supporters of a global warming say clean energy could create millions of new jobs. A 2009 study by researchers at the University of California Berkeley, the University of Illinois and Yale University concluded between 918,000 and 1.9 million jobs would be created over 10 years by the climate bill passed last year by the House of Representatives. Those added jobs would ripple through the economy, giving it a $39 billion to $111 billion boost. Similarly, a study by the Center for American Progress and the University of Massachusetts economics department looked at the combined effects of the House-passed climate control bill and last year's economic stimulus law. It concluded there would be a net 1.7 million new jobs. However, to date, the climate-jobs debate has not been bolstered by firm government statistics. Currently, there are about 130 million jobs in the United States.