{"id":2495,"date":"2012-09-04T07:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2012-09-04T07:16:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:16:12","slug":"massachusetts-clean-economy-sees-massive-growth-now-hosts-71000-jobs-in-cleantech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/massachusetts-clean-economy-sees-massive-growth-now-hosts-71000-jobs-in-cleantech\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts’ Clean Economy Sees Massive Growth, Now Hosts 71,000 Jobs In Cleantech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government investment and support for clean, renewable energy development is paying off handsomely in Massachusetts, where the clean energy economy grew 11.2% between July 2011 and July 2012. The state\u2019s fast-growing clean energy sector now employs 71,523 people at 4,995 clean energy businesses across the state, according to a\u00a0Massachusetts Clean Energy Center<\/a>\u00a0(MassCEC) report released Aug. 16.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have said from the beginning of this Administration that, if we get clean energy right, the world will be our customer,\u201d\u00a0Governor Deval Patrick<\/a>, who\u2019s serving his second term in office, stated in\u00a0a press release<\/a>. \u201cThis past year\u2019s 11.2 percent increase in clean energy jobs means that we are getting it right and the world knows it.<\/p>\n

\u201cInvesting in our nation-leading clean energy agenda is the right thing to do for our environment, our energy independence, our public health and our economic vitality. We owe it to our future to keep this momentum going strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

MORE:<\/strong> \u00a0Massachusetts’ Clean Economy Sees Massive Growth, Now Hosts 71,000 Jobs In Cleantech | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Government investment and support for clean, renewable energy development is paying off handsomely in Massachusetts, where the clean energy economy grew 11.2% between July 2011 and July 2012. The state\u2019s fast-growing clean energy sector now employs 71,523 people at 4,995 clean energy businesses across the state, according to a\u00a0Massachusetts Clean Energy Center\u00a0(MassCEC) report released Aug….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,111,22,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}