Across the United States this clean sector employs the enormous number of 2.7million people, surprisingly more then the fossil fuel industry.
The research done at the Brookings Institution found that the definition of "green" job widely varies and there is not set standard. So this is being targeted by legislators.
The proposals for renewable energy has stalled with legislators to allow federal incentives to expire for green projects. There just no interest for developers and financiers to startup a new project or company with dangers of high risk and would not want their money to become dead money.
In L.A, the power sector has grew 37% between 2003 and 2010. That can be shown by the change of 5 workers previously to 45.
That is a big positive impact for not only the state but a start for a high polluting city like Los Angeles to clean up their act and have other states, cities and countries follow suit with increasing green jobs with green projects.
It is important to get the policy framework from strong to excellent and have the term "green" job properly defined so the rise of this emerging clean industry will be a beautiful start to reducing carbon emissions one city at a time.
For more:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-green-jobs-20110713,0,1142707.story
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