claim: "there are already more american jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining."
author: sheldon whitehouse
evidence_1: apr 25, 2017 ... last year, the solar industry employed many more americans than coal, while  wind power topped ... about 54,000 coal jobs were in mining.
evidence_2: apr 25, 2017 ... "more than 260,000 americans are employed by the domestic solar industry ... as  many workers as employed by the entire coal mining industry.
evidence_3: jan 25, 2017 ... in the united states, more people were employed in solar power last year than in  generating electricity through coal, gas and oil energy combined. ... fuel  production and electricity generation together directly employed 1.9 ... solar  energy added 73,615 new jobs to the u.s. economy over the past year ...
evidence_4: aug 22, 2018 ... the trump administration could avoid the premature american deaths from ...  what is left of the coal mining industry represents a unique ... most coal workers  could not simply walk into a solar job; they would need ... after about a decade of  solar growth and coal declines, solar industry jobs now more than ...
evidence_5: may 3, 2017 ... ... the solar industry employed many more americans [373,807] than coal ... lots  of americans, more than twice as many as the number of coal miners and ..... now  are the cheapest source of energy and they create more jobs.