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The economic benefits of renewable energy

Renewable energy has both environmental and business dividends, EPA administrator says at Stockton symposium  Feb 22, 2012. Press of Atlantic City, By JOEL LANDAU, Staff Writer | GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Renewable energy is not only important for the country’s environmental future but the nation’s economic recovery as well, said U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson…

.. She focused her speech on new types of energy and the impact they will have on the future. Instead of highlighting the environmental aspects of the projects she spoke mostly about the
benefits they will have on spurring the economy. With growth in the population, Jackson said, the public must find clean, efficient ways to deliver energy to more people.
“Things that are happening today were science fiction when the EPA
started (40 years ago),” she said. “There has been a historic
investment of clean energy technology in the private and public
sector.”… The nation’s production of renewable energy has doubled in
the past four years and the country needs to continue to work to
maintain its position as the top producer in the world, Jackson said.
“An economy built around the new challenge of going further on a
smaller tank of gas is an example of how a good investment in the
economy can be a pillar of future growth,” she said. “We can have a
middle class built around the possibilities of renewable energy.”
Through the advancement of renewable energy sources and the industry’s
recent growth, science and the private business sector have become
more intertwined, and Stockton officials are preparing their students
for the adjustment.
Stockton created a new “sustainability” degree program this year that
blends different kinds of sciences as well as business, finance,
public policy and social science courses, said Patrick Hossay,
associate professor of sustainability for the college…..
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/renewable-energy-has-both-env

February 23, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general