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Midwest governors bank on green jobs

Midwest governors are betting that investments in clean energy technology can help replace more than 1 million manufacturing jobs lost this decade.

Midwest governors are betting that investments in clean energy technology can help replace more than 1 million manufacturing jobs lost this decade.

At a regional jobs and energy forum in Detroit on Wednesday, governors from seven Midwestern states adopted jobs and infrastructure agreements that encourage worker training in renewable energy, energy efficiency, biofuels and advanced coal technologies. Those fields are expected to attract increased investment as industry turns away from carbon emissions.

“We’ve lost 1.2 million manufacturing jobs in the Midwest in the last seven years, and we have an opportunity to get those back if we’re really focused on this area and make it happen,” said John Biondi, president of Madison biofuels technology firm C5-6 Technologies. “It could be done, but we would have to have the political will and the will to execute on some of these programs. If we sit back and say it’ll just happen, if that’s all we do, then it won’t happen.”Read Full Article

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