Where Are U.S. Green Jobs?
The United States has invested considerable amounts of taxpayer dollars to try to revive our economy. Too often, though, resulting jobs are being created overseas, as other countries invest in green technology deployment. As a result, the opportunity to improve our economic competitiveness is lost. Targeting our policies to help small U.S. technology producers is essential to keeping these jobs in the United States...
...ZeaChem Inc. -- a Colorado start-up, is building a facility in Boardman, Oregon, that will transform cellulose in trees to acetic acid, an organic chemical that can be converted into ethanol or used in plastics applications such as polyethylene bottles. In an area where the annual unemployment rate jumped from 6.2 percent in 2008 to 9.6 percent in 2009, this new facility will create as many as 300 jobs in the local economy.
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