Post Gazette: Alternative Energy Creates Jobs - 'Green jobs' supported at US Senate hearing held in Pittsburgh - by Don Hopey
Alternative Energy Creates Jobs: 'Green jobs' supported at US Senate hearing held in Pittsburgh - by Don Hopey
Clean energy and the "green jobs" attached to it enjoyed wide support in testimony at a U.S. Senate hearing in Pittsburgh yesterday, but differences remain about how and how quickly federal policies should push those goals. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., who hosted the hearing, acknowledged those tensions between "competing interests" in Pennsylvania coal, natural gas and alternative energy industries as the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee began work on legislation titled "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act," introduced earlier this month.
Michael Peck, North American spokesman for Gamesa USA, a Spanish wind turbine manufacturer with factories and 850 employees in Pennsylvania, urged establishment of a national standard mandating 12 percent renewable energy by 2012. That would send a strong message to investors and boost demand and job creation, he said.
Labels: Alternative Energy Resources, Job Market
