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What’s driving California’s clean energy economy?

This year was the first election in over 20 years that neither of the presidential candidates mentioned climate change in the debate. So what is happening in California’s clean energy and energy efficiency economy anyway?

This new report from Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) gives some numbers and great charts about current trends in energy efficiency. The chart above shows manufacturing and installation jobs leading the seven growth sectors of California’s clean and efficient economy. These are important sectors for construction jobs.

Check out Invest to Grow, the new report by Environmental Defense Fund.

Chart by: Environmental Defense Fund.

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