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Yahoo! Voices: Led by the South, clean energy sector added more than 150,000 jobs last year


A new report found an uptick in employment in the clean energy industry in 2023, fueled by the Inflation Reduction Act. Job growth in the industry outpaced the national average.

The report, released Tuesday by the nonpartisan business group E2, found an uptick in employment in the clean energy industry in 2023, fueled by the Inflation Reduction Act. The sweeping 2022 law included hundreds of billions of dollars to spur emissions cuts and help the U.S. economy transition away from fossil fuels to fight climate change. “The biggest threats to this unprecedented progress are misguided efforts to repeal or rollback parts of the IRA, despite the law’s clear benefits both to American workers and the communities where they live.”

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