Mary Casillas Salas, mayor of Chula Vista, Calif., cites AEE's study on advanced energy jobs, and the potential benefits for cities who embrace them. From the commentary:

In fact, California, in a survey done by the Advanced Energy Economy in 2015 found 507,703 clean energy jobs, an 18 percent increase from 2014 and an estimate of 550,000 in 2016, 10 times the number of jobs produced by the coal industry nationwide.

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