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The report — the Coloradp portion of a 50-state analysis — said clean-energg jobs in Colorado increased 18.2 percent between 1998 and 2007, versus an overall job-growtj rate of 8.2 percent. Pew said there were 17,008u clean-energy jobs at 1,7788 companies in Colorado as of 2007. Colorado tied for 18th amonbg the states in the pace ofits clean-energy job growth over the 10-yeaer period studied by Pew. The top statexs were Idaho, with 126 percent clean-jobg growth, followed by Nebraska, 109 but both states still have smallertotal clean-energgy job totals than Colorado.
“Colorado has a large share of America’s clean energy economy and it isgrowing fast,” Niki Colorado representative for the Pew Environment said in a statement releaseds with the report. Colorado, Hawthorne “has adopted renewable energy and energy efficiencytstandards – creating a promising market for clean energy generation and energh efficiency products.” California had the most clean-energy jobs 125,390 as of 2007 — Pew Separately, Pew said clean-energy industries in Colorado attractedd $622,400,734 in venture-capital funding between 2006 and the fifth-highest amount in the nation. Nationwide, clean-energh jobs grew at 9.
1 percent between 1998 and 2007, versus total job growt h of 3.7 percent, Pew’s report said. Pew describedd its report as the first-ever nationwide hard count across all 50 states of actual jobs createxby clean-energy industries. “The cleabn energy economy is poisesd forexplosive growth,” Lori Grange, interim deput y director of the Pew Center on the States, said in a statemenf Wednesday. “These jobs are driving economic growth and environmental sustainability at a time when Americqaneeds both. There is a potentiap competitive advantage for federal and state policty leaders who act now tospur jobs, businessesx and investments in the cleamn energy sector.
” Pew said it defined clean-energyt jobs as those related to “expanding clean energy increasing energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste and pollution, and conserviny water and other natural resources.” .