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California

SHRED

(28,136 posts) Sat Jun 3, 2017, 06:45 PM Jun 2017

Yet Dump wants coal.
Go figure.

Clean energy employs "more than half a million Californians. That’s nearly ten times more the number of coal mining jobs that exist in the entire nation."

http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jun/02/kevin-de-leon/does-california-have-10-times-many-clean-energy-jo/

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California's clean energy jobs equal 10 times the nation's coal mining jobs [View all] SHRED Jun 2017 OP

Short-term profit Lotusflower70 Jun 2017 #1

The numbers are a little exaggerated but they do underline the trend Brother Buzz Jun 2017 #3

K n R stopwastingmymoney Jun 2017 #4

Pretty important caveats in there about what jobs are being counted petronius Jun 2017 #5