Report: US green employment surge takes clean job opportunities past 2.6 million

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Ecotech Institute reports that "clean jobs" sector has grown 88 per cent in the past year

The number of so-called "Clean Jobs" in the US has soared in the past year, as job postings in the sector climbed 88 per cent in the past 12 months to pass through the 2.6 million mark. That is the...

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