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The Clean Energy Economy



The Clean Energy Economy: West Virginia

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PRESS RELEASE: West Virginia Clean Energy Economy Has Driven Jobs, But Needs Policy Boost – Pew Charitable Trusts, June 10, 2009

West Virginia has a small piece of America's clean energy economy. It is one of the few states where growth in total jobs outpaced growth in the clean energy economy between 1998 and 2007. (Total jobs grew less than 1 percent during that period, however.) Still, the state attracted nearly $6 million in clean technology venture capital and registered 14 patents in the past three years. Given West Virginia's long history as a coal mining state, it was notable that in May 2009, the state's Department of Environmental Protection granted its first carbon dioxide sequestration permit, to Appalachian Power Company.

 

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