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Report: Springfield MSA has 6% of state’s ‘clean’ jobs

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A report released this week by three environmental groups found the Springfield metropolitan statistical area accounts for roughly 6.1 percent of Missouri’s total “clean” energy employment ranks.

Missouri Energy Initiative, Clean Energy Trust and Environmental Entrepreneurs define “clean” jobs as those in renewable energy generation and energy-efficient fuels, transmission and transportation.

Missouri’s job total is 52,479, according to the report released yesterday. Establishments in the Springfield MSA - comprising Greene, Christian, Dallas, Polk and Webster counties - employ 3,213, almost three-fourths of which are energy-efficiency jobs.

Leading the state is the St. Louis MSA, which has total employment in the sector of 23,880. Second is the Kansas City MSA, where establishments employ 8,287 “clean” workers, according to the report.

Missouri’s total is up by 13,000 workers from a year earlier. This year, the industry is projected to grow by 8.3 percent in the Show-Me State.

“The market in Missouri for clean energy and energy efficiency is thriving,” said Josh Campbell, Missouri Energy Initiative’s executive director, in the release. “The projected growth in clean jobs is a sign that this sector is here to stay.”

The report also found Greene County made up roughly 4.8 percent of Missouri’s “clean” total.

On the national level, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan aims to grow renewable energy efforts and move away from coal-focused electricity generation.

However, in February, the U.S. Supreme Court put a stay on the plan that calls for carbon pollution from the power sector to come in 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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