Jay Inslee’s Green Jobs Claim

In an op-ed and at a town hall, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has claimed that the top two fastest-growing jobs in the United States are in clean energy: solar photovoltaic installers and wind turbine technicians. That’s not the case — at least not yet.

The governor is referring to Bureau of Labor Statistics’ projections that these two occupations will be the fastest-growing by 2026. But there isn’t any evidence yet that they are currently the fastest-growing occupations.

Also, the combined employed an estimated 14,500 people, as of May 2018. Even if its projections turn out to be that “the number of new jobs is projected to be relatively small.”