The Clean Economy Employs More Workers Than Fossil Fuels

By Katie Fehrenbacher at GigaOm

The green technology and clean power industries are currently employing more workers than their dirty fossil fuel peers. That's according to a report released from the Brookings Institution, which has crunched the numbers of jobs created in the U.S. by sectors like solar, wind, waste water recycling, public transportation and energy efficiency retrofits.