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September 10, 2008

Help Wanted Report: 12,000 New Jobs for West Virginia

Charleston, WV – The lure is thousands of new jobs, combined with a "cure" for climate change, pollution, and a broken economy. A new report from the University of Massachusetts documents how investing in a "green" economy would create more than 12,000 good-paying jobs in West Virginia, and bring benefits to taxpayers as well as to the environment.

The study sets up a $100 billion investment scenario, with most of the money coming from climate change pollution cap-and-trade investments.

Cathy Duvall with the Sierra Club says the time is right for investing in an eco-friendly economic stimulus.

"This report really demonstrates that the solutions to the problems of climate change and a struggling economy are both intertwined and within our grasp."

Duvall argues that doing the same old things on energy and economic policies isn't going to reverse the current situation, and a whole new approach would benefit working families.

"By addressing our country's energy crisis and the high cost of oil, we can create manufacturing and other jobs to replace some of the more than 600,000 jobs lost in this last year alone."

The study shows jobs created would include steelworkers, machinists, roofers and accountants.

Critics of the report say the numbers are "overly optimistic" and wouldn't meet growing energy demand.

The report was written by the Political Economy Research Institute and commissioned by the Center for American Progress. The full report is available online at www.peri.umass.edu.

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