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The Clean Energy Economy



The Clean Energy Economy: Arkansas

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PRESS RELEASE: Arkansas Clean Energy Economy Jobs Grew Two Times Faster than Overall Jobs – Pew Charitable Trusts, June 10, 2009

Arkansas has a small but growing piece of America’s clean energy economy. Its jobs in the clean energy economy grew at more than twice the rate of total jobs in the state between 1998 and 2007. The Arkansas Alternative Fuels Development Program, for which the legislature has approved funding through fiscal year 2011, attracts companies by offering millions of dollars in grant funding for production, storage and distribution of alternative fuels. In addition, the state has attracted nearly $23 million in venture capital in the past three years.

 

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