Yellow Light on Green Jobs: A Report by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy, Ranking Member Senator Kit Bond

摘要

With the 111th Congress, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee created a new Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy. This subcommittee affords the opportunity to take a deeper look into the issue of green jobs, their benefits and costs. With this in mind, Ranking Member Kit Bond conducted a review of green job programs, experiences and examples. Expert opinion and conclusions across dozens of reports were reviewed. As the endnotes indicate, reports by green jobs advocates and supporters formed the overwhelming majority of material reviewed. Nevertheless, a mixed picture of green jobs efforts presented itself with massive taxpayer subsidies required to create green jobs and higher energy prices and lost existing jobs expected from current proposals to fund green jobs creation. All of this signals a yellow light urging caution with green jobs.