Climate Changed
Jobs Take Center Stage of Climate-Change Debate in Trump Era
- ‘There is nothing that matters more to politicians than jobs’
- Advocates urge companies to tout economics of clean energy
A renewable energy technician walks on a wind turbine in Fleming, Colorado.
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As the Trump administration sets to work gutting environmental regulations, the best weapon for battling climate change in the U.S. may be jobs.
Many Republicans, including the president, have been unmoved by environmental or scientific arguments that federal policies should support clean energy as a way to combat global warming. They may be swayed by the 360,000 jobs provided by wind and solar in the U.S. last year, business executives and environmentalists said Friday at a climate-change conference in Chicago.