Renewable-Energy Tax Credits Essential to Building Green Economy

As the unemployment rate reached a four-year high, and after Congress failed this week to extend essential renewable-energy tax credits, the Blue Green Alliance said today that the U.S. is missing an enormous opportunity to create middle-class green jobs that will reinvigorate our economy, increase our energy independence and fight the global-climate crisis.

"The future of our economy depends on investments in renewable-energy sources like wind and solar power," said David Foster, executive director of the Blue Green Alliance.

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