Fossil fuel industry jobs surged in face of Biden climate agenda: Energy Department

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The Biden administration released an annual energy jobs report Wednesday showing significant growth in the traditional fossil fuel sector and broad energy jobs growth.

The 'Outnumbered' panel discusses key differences between Biden and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s trips to California as well as which issues are most important to today's Democratic Party.released its annual U.S. Energy and Employment Report on Wednesday, highlighting broad jobs growth in the energy sector driven by new fossil fuel jobs.

According to the USEER, American energy sector jobs grew 3.8% from 2021 to 2022, hitting a total of 8.1 million jobs last year and outpacing overall year-over-year employment growth of 3.1%. Sector job growth was experienced across all technologies but was especially high in traditional power generation.

"Today’s report shows that the clean energy transition is accelerating, with job growth across every pocket of America, and that unionized employers are filling these new positions with much more ease than non-unionized employers,""Thanks to President Biden’s historic Investing in America agenda, we expect to see steady growth of jobs to make and build a resilient and clean energy system offering good-paying and secure employment opportunities to America’s workers across the...

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm applauded increased clean energy job growth in a statement Wednesday morning. Clean energy jobs grew 3.9% in 2022, increasing by 114,000 jobs nationwide, the data showed. That increase was due in large part to the 21% growth in new jobs"related to zero emissions vehicles." Solar, wind and geothermal energy jobs increased 3.7%, 4.5% and 5%, respectively. Offshore wind energy saw an uptick of 20% which amounted to 178 new jobs.

 

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