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The Clean Energy Economy



The Clean Energy Economy: Alaska

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PRESS RELEASE: Alaska Clean Energy Economy Has Driven Job Growth – Pew Charitable Trusts, June 10, 2009

Alaska has a small but growing piece of America’s clean energy economy. It is one of only a few states where total job growth outpaced job growth in the clean energy economy between 1998 and 2007. More than three fourths of Alaska’s jobs in the clean energy economy in 2007 were in the Conservation and Pollution Mitigation category, with less than 1 percent in the Clean Energy sector. The state attracted an increasing number of clean energy economy jobs despite a lack of venture capital investments and few clean technology patents between 1998 and 2007. Governor Sarah Palin in May announced her intention to reject approximately $29 million in federal stimulus funds allocated to the state’s energy office because accepting them would have required the state to implement a statewide energy code

 

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