Release: Green Jobs for Vermont
Vermont and seven other states will share nearly $4 million in economic
stimulus funding announced today under a green jobs program that was
authored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “If we get our act together as a nation and start addressing the major
environmental problems of our time – global warming and our dependence
on fossil fuels – we can create millions of good paying jobs,” said
Sanders, chairman of the Senate’s Green Jobs and the New Economy
Subcommittee. “In other words,” he added, “good environmental policy is
good economic policy.”