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A new report from the Brookings Institution seeks to get its arms around the nebulous clean economy, and finds that Maines growth in the sector has tracked national trends, surpassing U.S. rates over the past few years.
Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment, was released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Washington, D.C. think-tank and found Maine had 12,212 clean jobs. It defined clean in a broad way, in 39 low-carbon and environmentally oriented industry segments ranging from work done on wind turbines to ocean energy, development of sustainable building materials to mass- transit workers and wastewater treatment experts. Nationwide in 2010 there were 2.7 million clean jobs, Brookings found.See the full content of this document
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'Clean' Jobs in Maine Growing
From 2003 to 2010, Maine added 2,914 such jobs, growing by 4 percent annually. That job growth closely tracked the national rate until sometime between 2008 and 2009, when the state rate overtook the national growth rate, which was 3.4 percent from 2003 to 2010.
Not surprisingly, taking into account Maines relatively small population of 1.3 million people, in terms of the overall size of the clean economy Maine ranke...See the full content of this document
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