The solar industry in the united states now has over 260 thousand jobs. In 2016 alone 51 thousand jobs were added in the solar industry. The solar industry has nearly 100k more jobs than coal, but Trump's new energy plan doesn't even mention solar..
National Solar Jobs Census - The Solar Foundation
Now compare that to coal..
There are approximately 174,000 blue-collar, full-time, permanent jobs related to coal in the U.S.: mining (83,000), transportation (31,000), and power plant employment (60,000). (See below for details on each sector.)
Coal and jobs in the United States - SourceWatch
Now add in wind power, at the start 2016 this industry supported 80k jobs
US wind power jobs hit record, up 20 percent in 2016 &
Wind power reaches 100K job milestone | HPPR
Since then it's added another 20 thousand jobs over the last year and by 2050 wind power alone is projected to supply this country 650 thousand jobs..
Meanwhile Republicans hate renewable power and do everything possible to push the dying industry of coal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.8cbbec39621c
Why is Trump & Republicans so out of touch with reality? Even the industry in their own states like Texas, Wyoming, Kansas are putting wind mills up all over the place while Republicans in Washington rally against industries supporting jobs in their own states. Trump talks about jobs but completely ignores one of the biggest job growth industries in our current time all to support a failed ideology and old technology..
added bonus, wind & solar don't pollute the environment to create electric and add mercury to our drinking water..
In other related industry news.. Shell wants to leave oil rig remains in the North Sea for 500 years.. Rather than be responsible for cleaning up their own mess..
http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...-a7567956.html