One of President Donald Trump's winning campaign platforms was his promise to bring back thousands of jobs in the fossil fuel industry—particularly those lost to the shrinking coal industry— that left entire counties devastated across the country.
But as it turns out, the number of clean energy jobs created in recent years far exceeds those lost to an increasingly outdated form of energy. In fact, the Department of Energy's (DOE) 2017 US Energy and Employment Report, said 3 million Americans were employed in the clean energy sector in 2016. That equals the number of those employed in retail store jobs, and is far more than the tens of thousands of jobs lost in the coal industry.
So this week, a broad coalition of clean energy groups have launched a social media campaign (#cleanenergyjobs) to highlight just how important their industries are to the American economy. They include such organizations as the American Council on Renewable Energy and the American Wind Energy Association.
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