President Obama Calls for Investment in Clean Energy, Job Creation

The following is from the weekly newsletter, Complete Week, from the Council of Competitiveness

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama stressed the importance of energy innovation to tame unemployment and rebuild the U.S. economy. 'To create more of these clean energy jobs,' Obama said, 'we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives.'
 

The Council's comprehensive energy report, Drive, cites estimates that the U.S. economy can add approximately 1.75 million green jobs by 2018.
 

Read the Council's recommendations for getting Americans back to work, titled 'Mobilizing a World-Class Energy Workforce.'