claim: "we have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country."
author: sheldon whitehouse
evidence_1: jan 25, 2017 ... in the united states, more people were employed in solar power than traditional  ... assertion that green energy projects are bad news for the american economy.  ... the report, while coal, gas and oil power generation combined had a workforce  ... the boom in the country's solar workforce can be attributed to ...
evidence_2: dec 20, 2017 ... this page explores the many positive impacts of clean energy, ... to make  comparisons easier, we use a carbon dioxide equivalent, or co2e—the amount  of carbon dioxide ... renewable electricity generation from biomass can have a  wide ... in 2016, the solar industry employed more than 260,000 people, ...
evidence_3: feb 1, 2017 ... the recently published department of energy 2017 u.s. energy and employment  report shows that clean electricity jobs are no doubt the engine that drives  america's ... the number of paychecks provided by the fossil fuel industry by... ...  we will keep you informed with the latest alerts and progress reports.
evidence_4: germany could be a model for how we'll get power in the future .... the country  still gets far more electricity from coal than from renewables. ... already made  germans, who have very little oil and gas of their own, think about energy. .....  identity as a nature-loving people—a key inspiration for the clean-energy  movement.
evidence_5: apr 17, 2013 ... despite the clean technology of the past decade, we continue to extract ... search  jobs · digital archive ... we have far more oil, coal and gas than we can safely  burn. ... after all, the climate doesn't know or care how much renewable or ... are,  how many people there are, or even how we run the economy.