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400,000 new green jobs in California?

December 26th, 2012, 2:38 am · Post a Comment · posted by

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Improving California’s energy efficiency by just 1 percent — a likely result of tough new laws aimed at curbing climate change — could jumpstart California’s economy, not clobber it, increasing the gross state product by $76 billion, household incomes by $48 billion and creating up to 403,000 new jobs in the growing “green” sector of the economy.

The predictions come from a new report from University of California economists, who plugged likely effects of California’s new regulations into a computer model.

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