Shifts in electricity generation spur net job growth, but coal jobs decline
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 13:30
in Earth & Climate
In four years following the 2008 recession, the US coal industry lost more than 49,000 jobs, while the natural gas, solar, and wind industries together created nearly four times that amount, according to a new. Few of the new jobs were added in states hardest hit by coal's decline, particularly West Virginia and Kentucky.