In the first full year since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, clean energy jobs in the U.S. grew at a faster clip than jobs across the rest of the economy, according to a new report by a business nonprofit. But there are few signs of that expansion in Wyoming, long the nation\u2019s largest purveyor of coal and a hotbed of fossil fuel development, where clean energy job growth has been halting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
E2, a business policy organization and the report\u2019s author, compiled its Clean Jobs America report<\/a> using data it helped collect for the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s most recent U.S. Energy and Employment Report<\/a>, which detailed economic trends for the calendar year 2023. The group found that clean energy jobs grew by 4.5 percent and accounted for one in every 16 new jobs added, bringing the total number of clean energy workers in the U.S. to almost 3.5 million. The rest of the economy grew jobs by 1.5 percent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThanks to the game-changing policies and incentives created by the IRA, clean energy companies are leading an American economic revolution the likes of which we haven\u2019t seen in generations,\u201d said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, in a statement accompanying the report\u2019s release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n